Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:00:51 +0100 From: Ruben <mail@osfux.nl> To: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enlarging a ZFS file system Message-ID: <4a12e8d8-2671-14c4-cbcf-3e0084a1f803@osfux.nl> In-Reply-To: <85fc7b92-3e40-33e2-b079-91d04944d13a@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> References: <85fc7b92-3e40-33e2-b079-91d04944d13a@informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
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Hi, Not anything that is production ready - as far as I know-, but I did read something in the last status update: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2018-01-2018-09.html (look for "OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion project" ) Regards, ruben On 1/25/19 3:43 PM, Christian Baer wrote: > Hey again everyone! > > I have a system with 5 drives running a RAIDZ2. The file system is > getting a little cramped, so I would like to extend it. > > Ideally I'd like to add 2 or three (identical) drives to the pool, let > the system work a little and then have a result as if I'd created the > whole thing from the start with 7 or 8 drives. Just to be clear: The > result should be a RAIDZ2 with 7 or 8 drives (depending on how many I add). > > A couple of years back, I read up on if this were possible and the only > way to enlarge a RAIDZ at the time was to replace *all* the existing > drives piece by piece with bigger ones and let the RAID heal drive by > drive. During my research I did stumble on a thread where developers of > ZFS were discussing that what I would like to do was actually a good > idea and a relatively widely requested feature. I didn't participate in > the discussion and for some reason cannot find it anymore. I must admit > that I didn't save the URL at the time. :-( > > Has there been any development in this direction? Can what I'd like to > do be done with FreeBSD today? The drives in question are used for > archive purposes and don't really see much action, so I am not worried > that they will die it the data on them gets copied around a fair bit. > > Y'all have a nice weekend! ;-) > > Regards, > Chris > _______________________________________________ > 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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