From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 27 12:39:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13127358 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (uk1rly2283.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C966913D7 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=smtp.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W7lSs-000887-Iy for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:38:58 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by smtp.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.82 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1W7lT3-0003lp-6i for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:39:09 +0000 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:39:09 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS confusion Message-Id: <20140127123909.dd04175320e6d6dc5c64a08e@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <52E40C82.7050302@gmail.com> <52E62DFF.3010600@gmail.com> <52E6463C.6090805@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:39:12 -0000 On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:12:02 +0100 (CET) Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:42-0000, Kaya Saman wrote: > > > It would be really good if raidz could be expandable, ie by adding > > extra 'new' disks into the same vdev. > > It's there! > > Try: zpool attach > [new_member2 ...] No it is not - from man zpool: ========================= zpool attach [-f] pool device new_device Attaches new_device to an existing zpool device. The existing device cannot be part of a raidz configuration. ========================== -- Steve O'Hara-Smith