On 2/11/2014 5:57 PM, Brogyányi József wrote:
And on a similar note: Suppose I have a signgle disk with data, and I
decide I can just afford a raidz1 of 4 disks, so I buy 3 more.... can I
somehow migrate the data on the original single disk onto a 3 disk
raidz1 and then add the original disk to that raidz?

You do realize that this will be effectively a RAID-0 reliability with RAID-5 performance? It's an interesting concept, but I'd be very worried about a single block error causing data loss and real problems.

Maybe your window is short enough that you don't mind the risk.


Hi
Here is the technik:
http://www.dev-eth0.de/creating-raidz-with-missing-device/
It must work.
Brogyi

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