Re: [developer] RAIDZ Expansion Feature

2023-11-08 Thread Matthew Ahrens via openzfs-developer
That's right - RAIDZ (and mirroring) only use the space of the smallest disk in the group, so they should normally be all the same size. As with other uses of `zpool attach` (to mirrors), the new drive needs to be no smaller than the existing disks. --matt On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:09 PM Anthony

Re: [developer] RAIDZ Expansion Feature

2023-11-08 Thread Anthony D'Atri
Nice. Is it the case that added drives must be the same -- or no smaller than -- existing drives in the RAID-Z group? The documentarian in me would call that out explicitly. > On Nov 8, 2023, at 19:01, Don Brady wrote: > > I'm happy to announce that the long-awaited RAIDZ Expansion feature h

[developer] RAIDZ Expansion Feature

2023-11-08 Thread Don Brady
I'm happy to announce that the long-awaited *RAIDZ Expansion* feature has officially landed in the OpenZFS master branch. This feature will need some soak time, but will be available in the OpenZFS 2.3 release, which is probably about a year out.   A huge thanks and shout out to Matt Ahrens for