Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 02:57:58 +0300 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick ZFS mirroring question for non-mirrored pool Message-ID: <4BEF3506.1000109@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1005151841200.12887@freddy.simplesystems.org> References: <4BEF2F9C.7080409@netscape.net> <alpine.GSO.2.01.1005151841200.12887@freddy.simplesystems.org>
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Many thanks for the response! :-) I'm quite sure that this is going to be more stable and less error-prone then any other file system.... Although currently I find the UFS v1 and v2 file systems the best outside of ZFS which is by default enabled on OpenSolaris. Yeah.... this should be cool! On 05/16/2010 02:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: >> >> if it's possible to add a mirror to a non-mirrored pool?? > > Yes. In a simple load-shared pool, individual disk vdevs on the pool > can easily be turned into mirror vdevs. Later you can convert back to > simplex if you like. This means that you can create the simple > load-shared pool and add redundancy later. I have done this before. > > Just make sure to read the documentation so that you add the mirror > disk correctly. > > Bob
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