Recently, I was in a position where I was aiding someone in
configuring five disks in RAID-Z1, and we were discussing whether or
not it would be possible to add (not replace) disks to the pool
without destroying and recreating the filesystem.
As far as I know, this is not currently possible (as o
On Oct 13, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Bruce Chapman wrote:
ZFS is supposed to be much easier to use than UFS.
For creating a filesystem, I agree it is, as I could do that easily
without a man page.
However, I found it rather surprising that I could not see the
physical device(s) a zfs filesystem w
> > > So how do I import a pool created on a different host for the first
> > > time?
>
> > zpool import [ -f ]
> >
> > (provided it's not in use *at the same time* by another host)
>
> So the warnings I've heard no longer apply?
> If so, that's great. Thanks for all replies.
Umm, which warnings
Nico,
Yes, I agree.
But also single random large single read and writes would also
benefit from a large record size. So, I didn't try make that
distinction. However, I "guess" that the best random large
reads & writes would fall within single filesystem re
On 12/10/06, Michael Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:06:15PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
>> I'd expect:
>>
>> zpool import -f
>>
>> (see the manpage)
>> to probe /dev/dsk/ and rebuild the zpool.cache file,
>> but my understanding is that this a
