Mark J Musante writes:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Rainer Orth wrote:
>
> >> + Splits off one disk from each mirrored top-level vdev in
> >> + a pool and creates a new pool from the split-off disks.
> >> + The original pool must be made up of one or more mirrors
> >> + and must not be in the process of resilvering. The split
> >> + command will choose the last device in each mirror vdev unless
> >> + overridden by a device specification on the command line.
> >
> > I suppose that giving a device specification (i.e. list of devices)
> > means that exactly those devices will be split off and you have to list
> > all devices if you specify any? Perhaps this should be made explicit?
>
> You only have to list the devices you want to explicitly split off. For
> the rest, the code chooses the last disk in each mirror vdev.
Ok, mention that in the man page and I'm fine.
Thanks.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
