I did that - it was nice. Took forever though on my PIII 700mhz :^) blake/
On 9/27/07, Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I considered this as well, but that's the beauty of marrying ZFS with > a hotplug SATA backplane :) > > I chose the to use the 5-in-3 hot-swap chassis in order to give me a > way to upgrade capacity in place, though the 4-in-3 would be as easy, > though with higher risk. > > 1. hot-plug a new 500GB SATA disk into the 5th spot in the backplane. > > 2. zpool replace mypool c1t3d0 c1t4d0 > where c1t[0-3]d0 are my currently active 250GB drives > > 3. wait for resilver to complete. > > 4. hot-pull c1t3d0 and pull the drive from the chassis, replace with > new 500GB drive, hot-plug back into backplane. > > 5. zpool replace mypool c1t0d0 c1t3d0 > > 6. wait for resilver to complete, rinse and repeat. > > As soon as all disks have been replaced, my zpool will be 1TB, not 500GB. > > On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:20:15 -0500 > > From: David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Best option for my home file server? > > To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > > Blake wrote: > > >> Obviously from a cost AND size perspective it would be best/smart to > go > > >> for option 3 and have a raidz of 4x250 and one of 6x500. > > >> > > >> Comments? > > >> > > >> > > > > How long are you going to need this data? Do you have an easy and quick > > way to back it all up? Is the volume you need going to grow over time? > > For *my* home server, the need to expand over time ended up dominating > > the disk architecture, and I chose a less efficient (more space/money > > lost to redundant storage) architecture that was easier to upgrade in > > small increments, because that fit my intention to maintain the data > > long-term, and the lack of any efficient easy way to back up and restore > > the data (I *do* back it up to external firewire disks, but it takes 8 > > hours or so, so I don't want to have to have the system down for a full > > two-way copy when I need to upgrade the disk sizes). > > > > -- > > David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ > > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ > > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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