Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-19 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello mike, Friday, January 19, 2007, 4:07:31 AM, you wrote: m I get that part. I think I asked that question before (although not as m direct) - basically you're talking about the ability to shrink volumes m and/or disable/change the mirroring/redundancy options if there is m space available to

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0800, Jeremy Teo wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? We definitely need it. As a usage case, on occasion we have had to move SAN sites, and

[zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Jeremy Teo
On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? -- Regards, Jeremy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0800, Jeremy Teo wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? If you think remove a device from a zpool = to shrink a pool then it is really usefull.

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/07, Jeremy Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? It's very useful if you accidentally create a concat rather than mirror of an existing zpool.

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 18/01/2007, at 9:55 PM, Jeremy Teo wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? Assuming we're talking about removing a top-level vdev.. I introduce new sysadmins to ZFS on a weekly

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Jeremy Teo wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? This is a pretty high priority. We are working on it. --matt ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:51 -0800, Matthew Ahrens wrote: Jeremy Teo wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have? This is a pretty high priority. We are working on it. --matt

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2007 01:29:23 PM: On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:51 -0800, Matthew Ahrens wrote: Jeremy Teo wrote: On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of nice to have?

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread mike
Would this be the same as failing a drive on purpose to remove it? I was under the impression that was supported, but I wasn't sure if shrinking a ZFS pool would work though. On 1/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a pretty high priority. We are working on it.