Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas Burgess
this sounds right. Theres also the problem of adding non-redundant types to redundant types...but yah, it kind of defeats the purpose, The thing people seem to miss, is ZFS comes with a price, that price is you need to plan your pool AND expansion plan ahead of time. If you want to grow pools w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-10 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:16:27PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > >i think you can add different types of vdevs but doesn't it make you use > >-f? > >i thought it was "not a good idea" > > I have no idea. I am not brave enough to try it with my ow

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Thomas Burgess wrote: i think you can add different types of vdevs but doesn't it make you use -f? i thought it was "not a good idea" I have no idea. I am not brave enough to try it with my own pool and am too lazy to test with files. There are lots of things you can d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-10 Thread Thomas Burgess
i think you can add different types of vdevs but doesn't it make you use -f? i thought it was "not a good idea" On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > unfortunately this is not possible right now.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Thomas Burgess wrote: unfortunately this is not possible right now. The only way to expand raidz is to add another raidz vdev or replace all the disks with larger ones... I don't think that there is an actual requirement for all the vdevs in a pool to be of the same type

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-10 Thread Thomas Burgess
unfortunately this is not possible right now. The only way to expand raidz is to add another raidz vdev or replace all the disks with larger ones... On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nandini Mocherla wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a RAIDZ pool configured on my system with 3 disks . Now I would >

[zfs-discuss] Adding a single disk to RAIDZ pool

2009-08-10 Thread Nandini Mocherla
Hi All, I have a RAIDZ pool configured on my system with 3 disks . Now I would like to add a single disk to the existing RAIDZ pool instead of adding raidz devices. Is it possible? Thanks Nandini ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar