Brandon High schrieb: > 1. Create a sparse file on an existing filesystem. The size should be > the same as your disks. > 2. Create the raidz with 4 of the drives and the sparse file. > 3. Export the zpool. > 4. Delete the sparse file > 5. Import the zpool. It should come up as degraded, since one of its > vdevs is missing. > 6. Copy your files onto the zpool. > 7. replace the file vdev with the 5th disk.
You can skip steps 3-5 and just put the sparse file offline manually (zpool offline ...) I have migrated a 2x1TB mirror to a 4x1TB RAIDZ this way a few weeks ago. Daniel _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
