Re: Expanding ZFS RAIDZ on the fly?

2013-01-12 Thread Gary Palmer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 04:11:18PM -0500, xenophon\+freebsd wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > curr...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Palmer > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 6:34 PM > > > > BPR doesn't look likely, unfortu

RE: Expanding ZFS RAIDZ on the fly?

2013-01-12 Thread xenophon\+freebsd
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > curr...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Palmer > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 6:34 PM > > BPR doesn't look likely, unfortunately. I wonder how other SANs implement restriping. The HP P4000/P4500 can

Re: Expanding ZFS RAIDZ on the fly?

2013-01-11 Thread Gary Palmer
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:30:44PM -0500, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > Speaking of ZFS restriping, is anyone (Oracle/FreeBSD/etc.) actively > working on block pointer rewrite functionality for ZFS? If Oracle does it, I wouldn't expect to see it released in source code form for the rest of us to us

RE: Expanding ZFS RAIDZ on the fly?

2013-01-11 Thread Matthew X. Economou
Speaking of ZFS restriping, is anyone (Oracle/FreeBSD/etc.) actively working on block pointer rewrite functionality for ZFS? -- I FIGHT FOR THE USERS ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-curren

Re: Expanding ZFS RAIDZ on the fly?

2013-01-11 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:39:10AM +, Tom Evans wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:10 AM, O. Hartmann > wrote: > > My question may sound naiv, sorry. > > > > I have already set up a RAIDZ (on FreeBSD 10.0-CUR), comprised with > > three 3 TB disks. I'd like to expand the array with an additiona

Re: Expanding ZFS RAIDZ on the fly?

2013-01-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:10 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > My question may sound naiv, sorry. > > I have already set up a RAIDZ (on FreeBSD 10.0-CUR), comprised with > three 3 TB disks. I'd like to expand the array with an additional disk - > on the fly. > > oh > It's not possible to expand by just 1