Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:06:36 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> To: Antti Louko <alo-freebsd-lists@louko.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: When does the pool get bigger? Message-ID: <20090215130636.GM84964@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <4998034D.5020203@louko.com> References: <5f67a8c40902141100w406b0a73h7cf487369e15ec8f@mail.gmail.com> <20090214203919.GV84964@cicely7.cicely.de> <4998034D.5020203@louko.com>
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 01:58:05PM +0200, Antti Louko wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 02:00:23PM -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > >> When does the pool get bigger? The resilver of the last drive has finished, > >> but the pool still reads > > >> ... which is the size with 750G drives. > > > You need to export/import the pool once. > > A related issue. It is probably more of a generic ZFS code base thing, > but what do you think? > > It would be a nice idea to be able to _prevent_ ZFS pool from groving > automatically. This could be a flag in the pool label or anything. This > is not a real issue in FreeBSD at least for me because it is in any case > better to use glabel to label partitions so that the names don't change > between reboots when devices are added and removed. > > But with pool using whole disks this would be useful if one wants to > keep pool at certain size eg. to be able to temporarily use larger disks > and later move back to original-size disks. This wouldn't be an issue at all if the pool could shrink. Since it is on the TODO list I will wait. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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