On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:06:03AM -0800, Alan Romeril wrote: > Hi there, > Just got my hands on a copy of Nevada b27 and have started playing > with zfs and zpool, and already have run myself into a corner. Is it > possible to remove storage from a storage pool without using zpool > destroy?
Currently, no; I just put up a blog entry about my experience with this: https://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jwadams?entry=an_initial_encounter_with_zfs > Let's say I want to migrate from one storage type to another online, > for example a mirrored volume to a raidz volume. > If I create the volume with zpool create testpool mirror c1t5d0 c1t6d0 > for example, I know that I can add the raidz volume with something > like zpool add -f testpool raidz c1t2d0 c1t3d0 c1t4d0 is it possible > then to remove the original mirror pair? Or maybe replace one of > the mirror components with a raidz set? This is not yet possible; it is being worked on, but I'm not sure of the timeframe; I'll let one of the ZFS folk answer this. > I was hoping that this > flexibility was available to make migration from one type of storage > array to another [u]really[/u] easy, something like start with old > array and storage layout then zpool add ( new and shiny ) and zpool > drop ( old and busted ) wait for i/o to complete and disconnect. > Perhaps I am being a little greedy here :) My understanding is that that is the desired end functionality; currently, you can't do it. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
