On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote:
> Your idea actually evolved for me into another (#7?), which > is simple and apparent enough to be ingenious ;) > DO use the partitions, but split the "2.73Tb" drives into a > roughly "2.5Tb" partition followed by a "250Gb" partition of > the same size as vdevs of the original old pool. Then the > new drives can replace a dozen of original small disks one > by one, in a one-to-one fashion resilvering, with no worsening > of the situation in regard of downtime or original/new pools' > integrity tradeoffs (in fact, several untrustworthy old disks > will be replaced by newer ones). Err, why go to all that trouble? Replace one disk per pool. Wait for resilver to finish. Replace next disk. Once all/enough disks have been replaced, turn on autoexpand, and you're done. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
