> >Can I use `dd' for that task or is that likely to
> have problems with
> >zfs?
> 
> Possible, yes.  Also, you need to copy everything.

Doesn't dd(1) do a bitwise copy, so how would that work?

> Yes.
> 
>       zpool pool replace olddevice newdevice 

Did anyone ever tell you that you're a genius?

> If it's a bootable pool, then there might be a
> problem; you can do it in 
> two steps:
> 
> zpool pool attach olddevice newdevice (make a
> a mirror)
> 
> and later, after a reboot from the new mirror (and
> after installing grub)

But what happens when you attempt to mirror a 60GB disk to a 500GB disk?  How 
does that work?
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