On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing > the capacity of the pool itself. Sure, you're going to lose the contents of > the large 2TB drive, but that's sort of assumed. You can't convert 4TB of > non-mirrored disks into 2TB of mirrored disks without losing 2TB of space. > Just make sure you have less than 2TB total used data on all volumes, and > copy the data off the 2TB filessytem onto the striped 1+1TB one before > repartitioning and adding the mirrors. > > zpool attach [-f] pool device new_device > The problem is that you cant attach a drive to a vdev that consists of two striped disks. -- chs, _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
