>> Thanks for providing this last bit of my mental ZFS picture.
>> 
>> Does ZFS keep statistics on how many ueberblocks are bad when
>> it imports a pool?
>
>No.  We could, of course, but I'm not sure how it would be useful.

I would probably be one of those "nothing is wrong" call generators
induced by strange error messages and bogus statistics.

>> Or is it the case that when fewer than 128
>> ueberblocks have ever been committed, the remainder will be bogus?
>
>Right.  We actually initialize them all during pool creation,
>so that they're not just random garbage; but they all have
>birth times of zero, indicating that they're not valid.

You'd probably have to initialize them for fear of them being valid
leftovers from old pools.

Casper
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