Jonathan,
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:37:33AM -0800, Jonathan Loran wrote:
> I'm 'not sure I follow how this would work.
The keyword here is thin provisioning. The sparse zvol only uses
as much space as the actual data needs. So, if you use a sparse
zvol, you may mirror to a smaller "disk", iff
Jonathan,
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:14:14AM -0800, Jonathan Loran wrote:
> What I'm left with now is to do more expensive modifications to the new
> mirror to increase its size, or using zfs send | receive or rsync to
> copy the data, and have an extended down time for our users. Yuck!
Not su
Hello Brian,
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:45:27AM -0700, Brian King wrote:
> Is there a way to convert a 2 disk raid-z file system to a mirror without
> backing up the data and restoring?
>
Currently there isn't a way to do this without having some
additional buffer disk space available.
What you
Hey Frank,
Frank Cusack wrote:
Patrick Bachmann:
IMHO it is sufficient to just document this best-practice.
I disagree. The documentation has to AT LEAST state that more than 9
disks gives poor performance. I did read that raidz should use 3-9 disks
in the docs but it doesn't say WH
