From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 21:38:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82AB1065673 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:38:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9A98FC12 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:38:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta23.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.90]) by qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id adbm1h0031wfjNsA2le8Jc; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:38:08 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta23.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id alZu1h00G1t3BNj8jlZu0T; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:33:54 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 80C5A102C1B; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:38:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:38:13 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Freddie Cash Message-ID: <20110919213813.GA70527@icarus.home.lan> References: <9774D03B-A8C7-48DE-9BC4-528DD4134787@altesco.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS auto expand mirror X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:38:14 -0000 On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Ben Stuyts wrote: > > > I want to expand an existing mirror by replacing the existing drives with > > bigger ones. This is on: > > FreeBSD xxx 7.3-STABLE FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #2: Mon Sep 20 18:36:08 CEST 2010 > > root@xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx amd64 > > > > # zpool status home > > pool: home > > state: ONLINE > > scrub: scrub completed after 2h0m with 0 errors on Mon Sep 19 18:25:45 > > 2011 > > config: > > > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > > home ONLINE 0 0 0 > > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > > ad5s1a ONLINE 0 0 0 > > ad7s1a ONLINE 0 0 0 > > > > Will this version of FreeBSD auto-expand to the new, bigger drive size once > > they are both replaced? I did not see the autoexpand property in this pool. > > zpool is v13, zfs is v3. > > > > No. You will need to reboot the system in order for the extra space to > become usable in the pool. Or, if none of the OS is installed on the pool, > you can export/import the pool to make the new space available. Does this advice/fact apply to FreeBSD 7.3? To my knowledge it does not. The ZFS version is too old. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |