Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 03:08:26 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: zfs drive configurations? Message-ID: <20070609020826.GA7887@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070609011724.B97CD5B52@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20070608223500.GA1250@genius.tao.org.uk> <20070609011724.B97CD5B52@mail.bitblocks.com>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: >=20 > > What if I have 5 200gb drives configured as a raidz pool, and then I > > replace one of the 200gb drives with a 400gb one. Operationally what > > would I do? >=20 > I believe you can do something like >=20 > zpool replace <pool> <device> >=20 > The new device will get "resilvered" -- get all the missing > data put on it and then brought up for operation. This can > take a while. >=20 > Note that you will not be able to use the extra disk until > *all* the disks in a group (mirror or raid) have been > replaced with bigger disks. Does it make sense to partition my disks into some nominal smaller chunks: D1a-g, D2a-g, ... D5a-g and run a number of raidz across the drives in parallel, D1a D2a .. D5a, etc? Joe
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