On 2013-11-20 12:48, Frank Swasey wrote:
One of my co-workers suggested that since this pool is made up of 4 11-disk RAIDZ2's and we are using less than half the entire pool size - that perhaps we can shrink the pool and create a new pool to move the data to, then add the other half into the new pool. I'm starting to do more reading, but while it sounds like a good idea, I'm not sure how or if it would be possible.
Unfortunately, no - ZFS does not currently support reduction of redundancy nor reduction of pool size - pools can only grow. At most, you might be able to "catastrophically" remove one of the parity disks from each set - giving you 4 available disks to make a new pool (and later grow it), but likely you should not do that (puts your main pool at risk, and will be too small anyway). //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
