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. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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