Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with simple (?) reconfigure of zpool

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Rodriguez
Hello Marc. Thank you so much for your help with this. Although the process took a full two days (I've got the Supermicro AOC 8 port PCI-X card in a PCI slot, dog-slow write speeds) it went off without a hitch thanks to your excellent guide. # zpool list mp NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP H

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with simple (?) reconfigure of zpool

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Rodriguez
Thank you for all of the thoughtful replies everyone. Tomorrow I will attempt the procedure you so kindly outlined Marc. A couple of follow up question, have you done anything similar before? Can you assess the risk involved here? Does the fact that the pool is currently at 90% usage change t

[zfs-discuss] Help with simple (?) reconfigure of zpool

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Rodriguez
Hello all. I was hoping to get some advice on how to do this without moving or losing my data. I have 6 drives in two raidz1 vdevs in a pool. I have 2 new 1TB drives that I would like to add to that pool and replace 3 of the smaller drives. I'd like to end up with 5 1TB drives in a single ra