Kory Wheatley wrote: > We have a Mirror setup in ZFS that's 73GB (two internal disks on a sun fire > v440). We currently are going to attach this system to an Equallogic Box, > and will attach an ISCSCI LUN from the Equallogic box to the v440 of about > 200gb. The Equallogic Box is configured as a Hardware Raid 50 (two hot > spares for redundancy). > > My question is what's the best approach to moving the ZFS data off the ZFS > mirror to this LUN, or joining this LUN to ZFS but not have a ZFS mirror > setup anymore because of the disk waste with the mirror setup. Whatever the > approach is the current data cannot be lost, and the least downtime would > help too. I thought the best approach might be to create the LUN as a 200 GB > ZFS pool, and then do a ZFS export from the 73GB drive and a ZFS import on > the 200 GB iscsci LUN. This LUN would still be setup as a RAID 50 even though > its a ZFS file system so we would still have some redundancy and we could > eventually grow this pool. Or would it be better to go UFS on the LUN and > copy the data over? > > What would be the best approach for moving this data or configuring the disks > involved? I'm open to any suggestions?
This has nothing to do with the indevelopment ZFS crypto project, I suspect you want zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org. -- Darren J Moffat
