> On May 11, 2013, at 8:59 AM, "Vladislav Prodan" <univers...@ukr.net> wrote:
> 
> > Add another virtual disk and do a RAID0 - not an option. It is not clear 
> > how to distribute the data from the old virtual disk to the new virtual 
> > disk.

> The other option would be to add an additional disk that is as large as you 
> want to the VM, attach it to the zpool as a mirror. The mirror vdev will only 
> be as large as the original device, but once the mirror completes 
> resilvering, you can remove the old device and grow the remaining device to 
> full size (it may do that anyway based on the setting of the auto expand 
> property of the zpool. The default under 9.1 is NOT to autoexpand:
> 
> root@FreeBSD2:/root # zpool get autoexpand rootpool
> NAME      PROPERTY    VALUE   SOURCE
> rootpool  autoexpand  off     default
> root@FreeBSD2:/root # 

Thanks.
I did not realize that there was such an interesting and useful option :)

# zpool get autoexpand tank
NAME  PROPERTY    VALUE   SOURCE
tank  autoexpand  off     default



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