Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:37:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: larger disk for a zfs pool Message-ID: <20110801143754.GD59252@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4E36B89A.4090200@nagual.nl> References: <4E36B89A.4090200@nagual.nl>
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In the last episode (Aug 01), Dick Hoogendijk said: > OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks > for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a > larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace the second > one for a larger disk and wait for the resilvering again. That's it. > Been there, done that. But my feeling tells me it is not that simple for > a FreeBSD zfs root system, or is it? Should be the same procedure. Make sure you either use "zpool online -e" when swapping in the new disks, or that you have the zpool autoexpand=on attribute set. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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