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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:24:14 -0400
From:      Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To:        Pawel Tyll <ptyll@nitronet.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays
Message-ID:  <4C497BDE.7020506@langille.org>
In-Reply-To: <1201761644.20100723035127@nitronet.pl>
References:  <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org> <4C48E695.6030602@langille.org>	<718046944.20100723032259@nitronet.pl>	<4C48F033.60800@langille.org> <1201761644.20100723035127@nitronet.pl>

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On 7/22/2010 9:51 PM, Pawel Tyll wrote:
>> So... the smaller size won't mess things up...
> If by smaller size you mean smaller size of existing
> drives/partitions, then growing zpools by replacing smaller vdevs
> with larger ones is supported and works. What isn't supported is
> basically everything else:
> - you can't change number of raid columns (add/remove vdevs from raid)
> - you can't change number of parity columns (raidz1->2 or 3)
> - you can't change vdevs to smaller ones, even if pool's free space
> would permit that.

Isn't what I'm doing breaking the last one?

>
> Good news is these features are planned/being worked on.
>
> If you can attach more drives to your system without disconnecting
> existing drives, then you can grow your pool pretty much risk-free.
>
>
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