Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-25 Thread Ben
Thanks very much everyone. Victor, I did think about using VirtualBox, but I have a real machine and a supply of hard drives for a short time, for I'll test it out using that if I can. Scott, of course, at work we use three mirrors and it works very well, has saved us on occasion where we have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Scott Lawson
Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Ben schrieb: Thomas, Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself in a mess and h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread George Wilson
Ben wrote: Hi all, I have a ZFS mirror of two 500GB disks, I'd like to up these to 1TB disks, how can I do this? I must break the mirror as I don't have enough controller on my system board. My current mirror looks like this: [b]r...@beleg-ia:/share/media# zpool status share pool: share sta

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 24.06.09 17:10, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Ben schrieb: Thomas, Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 24 Jun 2009, at 22:37 , Ben wrote: Many thanks Thomas, I have a test machine so I shall try it on that before I try it on my main system. This is one of the best ways I've found to do things. Sorry to be off-topic for a minute, but VirtualBox has helped me prove out a lot of things -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
Many thanks Thomas, I have a test machine so I shall try it on that before I try it on my main system. Thanks very much once again, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Ben schrieb: > Thomas, > > Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use > them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system > up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself in a > mess and having to reinstall, th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
Thomas, Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself in a mess and having to reinstall, thus losing my configuratio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
dick hoogendijk schrieb: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:14:52 PDT > Ben wrote: > >> If I detach c5d1s0, add a 1TB drive, attach that, wait for it to >> resilver, then detach c5d0s0 and add another 1TB drive and attach >> that to the zpool, will that up the storage of the pool? > > That will do the tri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:14:52 PDT Ben wrote: > If I detach c5d1s0, add a 1TB drive, attach that, wait for it to > resilver, then detach c5d0s0 and add another 1TB drive and attach > that to the zpool, will that up the storage of the pool? That will do the trick perfectly. I just did the same last