Remove "Indirect-*" disk in a pool after rewrite command.

[gyto6]

The question is old, and probably still unsolvable.

However, I did delete my whole snapshots and used the "rewrite -Prvx" command to rebalance the files between the vdevs.

I hoped It could actualise the Zpool Status infos, but the "Indirect-*" are still there.

All I've done was to reduced a 3 mirrors stripped vdev to 2 mirrors stripped vdev.

I deleted the mirror instead of detaching the disks to naturaly write the data to the 2 others mirrors, but I'd like to now if there's a solution as the "Indirect-*" disks were purged by the deletion from the zpool, or at least that's what I thought.

Regards

[amotin]

Indirect disks include mapping tables, which should shrink as blocks are rewritten/remapped. But I am not sure it is realistic to expect the mapping table to get completely empty so that indirect vdev could turn into a hole. But having some small mappings remaining should not be a very huge deal.

[gyto6]

Indeed, I expected the rewrite command to do so as explained earlier. Something to add to the To-Do list