From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 15:34:54 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 68BC91065672 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:34:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from outbound.icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB2F8FC16 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:34:53 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAEbANk58qgxC/2dsb2JhbABBp2F3gUABAQEBAgEBAjc/BQsLDTkUFAQxE4dsBL90hWNfBJBvhwQti1E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,301,1309708800"; d="scan'208";a="133448083" Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) ([124.170.12.66]) by outbound.icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 01 Aug 2011 23:06:17 +0800 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DB9AD10C7; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 01:06:14 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 01:06:14 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: Dick Hoogendijk Message-ID: <20110801150614.GA87286@ozzmosis.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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 15:34:54 -0000 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. Regards Andrew