On Friday, September 18, 1998 2:11 PM, Guy Harris [SMTP:guy@netapp.com] wrote:
I don't know if hot spares can be left unassigned, so it may be necessary for each filer to have its own hot spare(s) assigned to it.
Hot spares are, as I remember, owned by particular members of the CF pair.
Right -- ownership is based on how the disk shelf is wired up to the filers. So all the disks in any given shelf are "owned" by the same filer, regardless of whether they are part of a filesystem or a hot spare.
Steve