IIRC, I did this ages ago on a box I was playing with.

There was some fooling around to do though... as ZFS boot disks use slices, and an SMI label, not an EFI label and whole disk...

I vaguely recall changing the underlying volsize with the LDOM down, then net-booting single user, using format to alter the size of slice 0, then rebooting all the way back up, and the zpool auto-expanded to use the rest of the disk.

And - if you are using mirrors, you won't see the extra space until both sides are done.

I'd be inclined to spin up a baby test LDOM and give it a crack - but be sure that you get Oracle's buy-in to be sure they won't arbitrarily decide that it's not a supported procedure.

You might also need to watch out for the auto-expand property for the zpool - depending on what Solaris you are running, you might see different behaviour...

Cheers!

Nathan.


On 8/12/2010 7:42 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote:
Hello,

We are using ZFS volumes as guest domain boot disks and was wondering
if its possible to increase the size of the boot drives without
rebuilding?

Thanks
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