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Only if you have low redundancy. RAIDZ is better about this isn’t it? And Backblaze goes a lot farther. They just decommission the rack when it hits the limit for failed disks, and the files on the cluster are stored on m of n racks, so adding a rack and “resilvering” doesn’t even require scanning the entire cluster, just m/n of it.


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