From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 15:08:42 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 7BC8F106566B for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:08:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322F68FC0A for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.134] (helo=smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qnu6i-0000El-Q5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:08:40 +0200 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qnu6i-0004ax-4K for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:08:40 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.37] (192.168.11.37) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 3B9958; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:09:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4E36C187.2050902@nagual.nl> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:08:55 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <4E36B89A.4090200@nagual.nl> <20110801150614.GA87286@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20110801150614.GA87286@ozzmosis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Qnu6i-0004ax-4K X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.176, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.67, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_ZF 0.08) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No 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 15:08:42 -0000 Op 1-8-2011 17:06, andrew clarke schreef: > On Mon 2011-08-01 16:30:50 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (dick@nagual.nl) wrote: > >> 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? > By the way, a similar question appeared on the freebsd-fs list recently: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-June/011887.html > > Although the question was asked with regards to ZFS v28, which may be > newer than what you are using. Thanks for the pointer. It's not hopeful plus the fact that I want to expand a rootpool from which I want to boot the system.