From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 16:40:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4A1106567A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@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 7FA238FC27 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi8 with SMTP id 8so2170584pxi.13 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:40:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=rEmw1fn3DMzIUOM4BZeUZXhKOs/3gsWsGEIMdHpVOaA=; b=MzcZCl7JOx2YXn7XUCSPvz3Z0NINwY3ZdJ2XW0q2D5qZyZuYTZEs41C+pq9pb0XfeQ zWzBXCwKMb9UDxee6DGD6Bq/xPmaq1AwIvmk8p52xoWEgopnc7vu69judlnDdST6YQ7T ySUbs4iZrDWMlDgtfnzcNHN7zra+xohhbbjcM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=BIbhKuB/K41ewSdIiDDX9IcwwcJb5Lt2F/bO6xLki9QTZ68X90nwiJEYKvyOLz8XUF vJtSyHXn9/Z5DHHkVVAhx2LAc67gheTDIYThnaVy3q6mhvHk7Hc+3zLTQ2umzPOtKkmm TnsZKShOhblJfsf6Qacpmk2TDjZugXxvf2AlA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.75.14 with SMTP id x14mr7354546waa.189.1279557621879; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.161.208 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:40:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:40:21 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:40:22 -0000 On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Garrett Moore wrote: > I forgot to ask in the last email, is there a way to convert from Z1 to Z2 > without losing data? I actually have far more storage than I need so I'd > consider going to Z2. No, unfortunately it's not currently possible to change vdev types in ZFS. This is waiting on the long-time-in-coming "block-pointer rewrite" feature which has not yet been added to ZFS in OpenSolaris (and there's very little information on it's progress). The standard process is: - configure new server - configure pool using new vdev layout - zfs send/recv data to new server - decommission old server Or: - take backups of server - destroy pool - configure new pool using new vdev layout - restore from backups -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com