On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Chris Mosetick wrote: > Can anyone elaborate on the "zpool split" command. I have not seen any > examples in use am I am very curious about it. Say I have 12 disks in a pool > named tank. 6 in a RAIDZ2 + another 6 in a RAIDZ2. All is well, and I'm not > even close to maximum capacity in the pool. Say I want to swap out 6 of the > 12 SATA disks for faster SAS disks, and make a new 6 disk pool with just the > SAS disks, leaving the existing pool with the SATA disks intact.
zpool split only works on mirrors. For examples, see the section "Creating a New Pool By Splitting a Mirrored ZFS Storage Pool" in the ZFS Admin Guide. -- richard -- OpenStorage Summit, October 25-27, Palo Alto, CA http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com +1-760-896-4422 Enterprise class storage for everyone www.nexenta.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
