if i understand correctly, this feature requires enabling a feature flag thus 
irreversibly changing the on-disk format. this means if on a non-patched 
version you do the mistake of adding the unwanted vdev, in order to use the 
feature you need to upgrade the pool.

can the feature be shipped also separate as a `zdb` feature for an exported 
pool, without needing to upgrade the pool, so a production non-patched pool can 
benefit the feature without having to touch the production zfs code and 
existing pool on-disk format?

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