Chris Gilligan wrote: >> Chris Gilligan wrote: >> >>> ok maybe i should rewrite my question in a better >>> >> way. >> >>> >>> >> No, the reason nobody answered was that this a >> frequent FAQ, >> second only to CR 4852783 reduce pool capacity. >> >> > > Famous last words but i thought i read everything in the FAQ but maybe i > missed it and i want to make sure i have this right. > > a raidz is basically constant. you can't add extra disks, you can't reduce > the number of disks, you can't increase it size by adding some larger disks > and it does not take advantage of say 2x 250gb and 3x 1tb disks. it would > treat them all as 250gb. > > Also from what i have read in other posts there are no plans to change this. > > Lastly am i also right in saying there is no easy way to replace one raidz of > say 6 250gb's with a new raidz of 4x 1tb disks? liek you replace disks in a > raidz but instead replace raidz in a pool >
I guess it depends on your definition of "easy." You could back everything up to floppy and restore on a new pool. IMHO it is much easier to just use mirrors which aren't subject to the set restrictions of raidz or raidz2. -- richard > thanks > > Chris > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
