From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 09:21:54 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 70D50106566C for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christer.solskogen@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463CA8FC15 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi1 with SMTP id 1so37197pxi.13 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:21:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=B0XgQg5dRArmz2YlqTthp9IMdcdEKB4qSbBUBFNuubQ=; b=FYlYbyDIAPxKo12cNh947uSDTe27sGOalcO9F7yaCuA6zFuTEHQuV9nAnUMspwCc6x tRR/Qhrhq7cK34qndg+VNAGtXargyxmJ9ILsn/CTKFIZFdNAkkwKaax6TtfFjs/sET0i xVvzP2FmVhY82h80hH8Ugfqs5IKVU9YO+1E7A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=U0yXvKstKmWE8T3a0hBtAiEMra7++e2MqN6P1JYpGOZ2Sr438hL3FTIfZEjkx3rJ2b 4JagK1wZocyIHKc7UC7z4ng+9r5kSNZbfttjfiPmeWUj0cb/R7eAI0jb4ADmG/Qxqv53 55zNoDkWhCmDHwYrMFApqnjRUjbrUg08Mxn5Y= Received: by 10.142.194.1 with SMTP id r1mr109233wff.12.1296033713678; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:21:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.72.2 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:21:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D3FDE82.4000105@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4D3FDE82.4000105@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> From: Christer Solskogen Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:21:33 +0100 Message-ID: To: "O. Hartmann" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk) 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: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:21:54 -0000 On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data > loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? > No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disks with ZFS. The only way of doing what you want by creating a gmirror (or by hardware raid) of the two 1TB disks. -- chs,