Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 18:42:10 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from raidz2 to mirror Message-ID: <9465cd3a-5151-8629-d0aa-5b47994b4eef@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0b2c709d-3c71-67f9-5af8-5062b0cf857f@bluerosetech.com> References: <0b2c709d-3c71-67f9-5af8-5062b0cf857f@bluerosetech.com>
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No, you will make a new pool and zfs send the data over. On 2017-11-07 6:30 PM, Mel Pilgrim wrote: > I currently have this raidz2 configuration: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > tank ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/zfsd0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/zfsd1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/zfsd2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/zfsd3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > I want to switch to a mirror configuration on new disks. My first > thought was to add the disks to tank as mirrors of the existing raidz2 > plex and use resilvering to transfer everything without downtime. The > man page section for the zpool attach command says the existing device > "cannot be a part of raidz configuration", but I'm not sure what "part > of" means here. Does that mean only that I can't attach a mirror to any > of the individual members of the raidz2 plex (the gpt/zfsd* shown above) > or does that include the "raidz2-0" vdev? > > In other words, is it possible to attach a single disk as a mirror of > raidz2-0? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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