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Clarify 'zpool remove' restrictions
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Update zpool(8) to clarify what type of vdevs may be safely
removed and that the existence of any top-level raidz device
which is part of the primary pool will prevent device removal.

Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #7880 
Closes #7893
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.Ar pool Ar device Ns ...
.Xc
Removes the specified device from the pool.
This command currently only supports removing hot spares, cache, log
devices and mirrored top-level vdevs (mirror of leaf devices); but not raidz.
This command supports removing hot spare, cache, log, and both mirrored and
non-redundant primary top-level vdevs, including dedup and special vdevs.
When the primary pool storage includes a top-level raidz vdev only hot spare,
cache, and log devices can be removed.
.sp
Removing a top-level vdev reduces the total amount of space in the storage pool.
The specified device will be evacuated by copying all allocated space from it to
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the background.
The removal progress can be monitored with
.Nm zpool Cm status.
This feature must be enabled to be used, see
.Xr zpool-features 5
The
.Sy device_removal
feature flag must be enabled to remove a top-level vdev, see
.Xr zpool-features 5 .
.Pp
A mirrored top-level device (log or data) can be removed by specifying the top-level mirror for the
same.
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