Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/01/2011 21:57, O. Hartmann wrote: > My thinking was simple, I thought since the two physical 1TB disks build > one joint pool of 2TB overall capacity, I could simply 'mirror' this > pool to another disk of the same capacity. > Is there a way to 'send' via ZFS the data of the pool to the backu

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not > > changing the capacity of the pool itself.  Sure, you're going to lose > > the contents of the large 2TB drive, but t

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/26/11 21:47, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing the capacity of the pool itself. Sure, you're going to lose the contents of the large 2TB drive, but that's sort of assumed

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing > the capacity of the pool itself.  Sure, you're going to lose the contents of > the large 2TB drive, but that's sort of assumed.  You can't convert 4TB of > non-mirrored

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> > My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: >> > My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data >> > loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > > My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data > > loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? > > No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disk

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread krad
On 26 January 2011 09:21, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann > wrote: > >> My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data >> loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? >> > > No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three d

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data > loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? > No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disks with ZFS. The only way of doing what you want by creating a

FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread O. Hartmann
I've got a problem. For performance reasons I use two 1TB harddrives as a single pool, and as far as I know, ZFS on recent FreeBSD 9/amd64 treats suchs pools 'striped'. Well, I can measure a performance gain in writing and reading. Well, for backup, I use an additional 2TB disk, ZFS, compressed