When DP is actively drive balancing, what's safe to do?

[fleggett1]

I'm just full of questions lately.

This might be a dumb question, but what's "safe" to do with files on drives that are in the process of being moved around, like with a (re)balance?  I mean, can you just use the pool as normal (reading, writing, deleting, etc.) or should you wait until the rebalance is done to ensure the pool remains 100% intact?

Also, does DP "lock" drives that are being (re)balanced or restrict them in some fashion from being used?

[Shane]

You can just use the pool as you normally would while DrivePool takes care of things in the background (e.g. balancing). DrivePool will "lock" (make read-only) the pool if it detects a problem (e.g. if one of the drives in the pool goes missing).