Re: [zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-22 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Bob Friesenhahn schrieb: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Håvard Krüger wrote: Is it possible to build a RaidZ with 3x 1TB disks and 5x 0.5TB disks, and then swap out the 0.5 TB disks as time goes by? Is there a documentation/wiki on doing this? Yes, you can build a raidz vdev with all of these

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: But in this case one should be aware that if one adds another vdev, it is currently impossible to get rid of it afterwards. I.e. the pool will always have to RaidZ vdefs, and the new vdev which would consist in this scenario of 3 1T disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-22 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello there, It´s not a wiki, but has many considerations about your question: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=78841tstart=60 Leal. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-21 Thread Håvard Krüger
Hi, my present RaidZ pool is now almost full so I've recently bought a Adaptec 3805 to start building a 2nd one, but since these are so expensive I don't have enough money left over to buy 8x1TB disks, but I can still buy 3, and I have 5x 0.5TB disks lying around. Is it possible to build a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building a 2nd pool, can I do it in stages?

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Håvard Krüger wrote: Is it possible to build a RaidZ with 3x 1TB disks and 5x 0.5TB disks, and then swap out the 0.5 TB disks as time goes by? Is there a documentation/wiki on doing this? Yes, you can build a raidz vdev with all of these drives but only 0.5TB will be