I have read a bit about ZFS expansion but there is a few things I still do not understand from a best practices point of view,.
My situation is this. I have an opensolaris system built up as a media server serving several rooms in my house. you can read about my system here: http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=22093&highlight=opensolaris Believe it or not, I am out of room! I need to more storage to the system and have done so by adding a second supermicro controller (AOC-SAT2-MV8) and four more WD15eads drives. This maxes out my case now as I have 11 drives installed in a mid tower configuration. The challenge of this server is that the target playback device which is a PCH(popcorn hour A110) cannot mount more than one network share at a time. I current have my main pool mounted on the PCH, but have run into a snag getting the second pool attached. I through my options would be to somehow create a shortcut (mountpoint, softlink, whatever) for the second pool into my main pool but I have not gotten that to work. When I try to add the devices to my pool i get a RAID config mismatch warning since my primary pool is RAIDZ2 and the new pool is RAIDz1. I have enough external storage (about 6TB) so I could backup the entire collection to the external storage and start over but I am trying to avoid that. Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try? I could not get the softlink to work since sharing as NFS does not seem to traverse the link to show the contents of the second pool. Sharing as SMB just doesn't work, it never shows up on the PCH but on a windows machine the softlink shows up as a unix executable!? If I take down the entire system can I build one large pool which is uniform in RAID type (Z2) but spans disks on both controllers? Any help would be appreciated and keep in mind I am trying to avoid the whole backup/restore scenario. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
