So, does that work with RAIDZ1 and 2 pools?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Milkowski <mi...@task.gda.pl> wrote:

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> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Tiernan OToole wrote:
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>  Good morning all.
>>
>> I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and
>> i
>> am already thinkg ov the V2 build...
>>
>> Currently, there are 8 250Gb hdds and 3 500Gb disks. the 8 250s are in a
>> RAIDZ2 array, and the 3 500s will be in RAIDZ1...
>>
>> At the moment, the current case is quite full. i am looking at a 20 drive
>> hotswap case, which i plan to order soon. when the time comes, and i start
>> upgrading the drives to larger drives, say 1Tb drives, would it be easy to
>> migrate the contents of the RAIDZ2 array to the new Array? I see mentions
>> of
>> ZFS Send and ZFS recieve, but i have no idea if they would do the job...
>>
>>
>
> if you can expose both disk arrays to the host then you can replace (zpool
> replace) a disk (vdev) one-by-one. Once you replaced all disks with larger
> ones zfs will automatically enlarge your pool.
>
> --
> Robert Milkowski
> http://milek.blogspot.com
>
>


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