Paul Kraus wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Bob! Thanks for the reply. I was thinking about going with a 3 way
>> mirror and a hot spare. But I don't think I can upgrade to larger drives
>> unless I do it all at once, is that correct?
>
> Why keep one out as a Hot Spare ? If you have another zpool and
> the Hot Spare will be shared, that makes sense. If the drive is
> powered on and spinning, I don't see any downside to making it a 4-way
> mirror instead of 3-way + HS.
>
> --
Also, to add larger disks to a mirrored pool, you can replace the mirror
members, one at a time, with the larger disk and wait for resilver to
complete. Then replace the other disk, resilver again.
Craig
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