Re: [zfs-discuss] convert raidz from osx

2009-10-08 Thread Dirk Schelfhout
yes, that was what I was doing. I wanted to give the raidz whole disks because grub didn't want to install. ( I forgot which command I used . bootadm ? ) I have another slice free on a shared disk with osx and win7 but I am having problems with grub. I will try that again and document it so

Re: [zfs-discuss] convert raidz from osx

2009-10-08 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Dirk, I'm not sure I'm following you exactly but this is what I think you are trying to do: You have a RAIDZ pool that is built with slices and you are trying to convert the slice configuration to whole disks. This isn't possible because you are trying replace the same disk. This is what happens

[zfs-discuss] convert raidz from osx

2009-10-08 Thread dirk schelfhout
I am converting a 4 disk raidz from osx to opensolaris. And I want to keep the data intact. I want zfs to get access to the full disk instead of a slice. I believe like c8d0 instead off c8d0s1. I wanted to do this 1 disk at a time and let it resilver. what is the proper way to do this. I tried, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-03 Thread Tim Foster
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:54 -0400, Luke Scharf wrote: > Tim Foster wrote: > > You can add a disk to a raidz configuration, but then that makes a pool > > containing 1 raidz + 1 additional disk in a dynamic stripe configuration > > (which ZFS will warn you about, since you have different fault tole

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-03 Thread Luke Scharf
Tim Foster wrote: And is it possible to add 1 new disk to raidz configuration without backups and recreating zpool from cratch. You can add a disk to a raidz configuration, but then that makes a pool containing 1 raidz + 1 additional disk in a dynamic stripe configuration (which ZFS will w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-02 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:37:24AM -0700, homerun wrote: > Is it possible to convert live 3 disks zpool from raidz to raidz2 > And is it possible to add 1 new disk to raidz configuration without > backups and recreating zpool from scratch. The reason that's not possible is because RAID-Z uses a va

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-02 Thread Tim Foster
Hi there, On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 00:37 -0700, homerun wrote: > Is it possible to convert live 3 disks zpool from raidz to raidz2 Unfortunately not - you'd need to backup your data, destroy the pool, create the new pool and restore your data. > And is it possible to add 1 new disk to raidz configu

[zfs-discuss] Convert raidz

2007-04-02 Thread homerun
Hi Is it possible to convert live 3 disks zpool from raidz to raidz2 And is it possible to add 1 new disk to raidz configuration without backups and recreating zpool from cratch. Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss maili