From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 14:38:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFC0106566C for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:38:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110588FC13 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p71Ec0Md079367 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:38:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p71EbwLl034211 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:37:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p71Ebukb034183; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:37:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:37:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dick Hoogendijk Message-ID: <20110801143754.GD59252@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4E36B89A.4090200@nagual.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E36B89A.4090200@nagual.nl> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.2 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:38:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: larger disk for a zfs pool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:38:01 -0000 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