As has been mentioned on this forum, this would require a significant change
to the way RAID-Z works. To my knowledge there is no such project at present.
Do you have a use case where this is required?

Adam

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Echo B wrote:
> Apologies for the blank message (if it came through).
> 
> I have heard here and there that there might be in development a plan
> to make it such that a raid-z can grow its "raid-z'ness" to
> accommodate a new disk added to it.
> Example:
> I have 4Disks in a raid-z[12] configuration. I am uncomfortably low on
> space, and would like to add a 5th disk. The idea is to pop in disk 5
> and have the raid-z expand its feature set and free space to
> incorporate the 5th disk.
> 
> Is there indeed such a thing in the works? Or in consideration?
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