From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 11:24:23 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 984DE1065676 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:24:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE0A8FC0C for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D6150B7A; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:24:22 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xDSTyQ8wTSEK; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:24:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA94250A93 ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:24:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C497BDE.7020506@langille.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:24:14 -0400 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Tyll References: <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org> <4C48E695.6030602@langille.org> <718046944.20100723032259@nitronet.pl> <4C48F033.60800@langille.org> <1201761644.20100723035127@nitronet.pl> In-Reply-To: <1201761644.20100723035127@nitronet.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays 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: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:24:23 -0000 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/