From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 13:38:08 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 88EA51065814 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michal@sharescope.co.uk) Received: from mail1.sharescope.co.uk (mail1.ionic.co.uk [85.159.80.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7BD8FC08 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.sharescope.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A07FC0C5 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:20:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sharescope.co.uk Received: from mail1.sharescope.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.sharescope.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z2BLMVh20Pdu for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:20:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.2.50] (unknown [85.159.85.2]) (Authenticated sender: chris@sharescope.co.uk) by mail1.sharescope.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5D481FC0AB for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:20:10 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C7FA50D.4000409@sharescope.co.uk> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:22:21 +0100 From: Michal User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices 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: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:38:08 -0000 I have a small problem that I am trying to work out a solution for. Imagine you create a NAS box. Fill a small server with 5 hard drives, zfs them with raidz or whatever, create your pools and then shear this to the network using samba. Simple NAS box for your network to put their files and they just connenct to \\nas1 This box is now full, my problem is that I could create a 2nd NAS box and people use \\nas1 and \\nas2 but it's not very use friendly. Can I somehow build a 2nd box which is identicle, but extend my pools into nas2. I was thinking something like exporting the nas2 drives via iscsi and then nas1 add's the drives to the pool...or something similar. I find that with any NAS whether its home build or shop bought you will eventually run out of space, and sure you can replace the HDD's with bigger ones but you will see run out of space, and having multiple locations, in my mind, is not very elegant. I cannot simply add more HDD's to the box as well as it's at full capacity Thanks