Patrick Bachmann wrote:
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 m
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
Patrick Bachmann wrote:
> 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
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
Shawn Ferry wrote:
On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Jonathan Loran wrote:
Now I know this is counterculture, but it's biting me in the back side
right now, and ruining my life.
I have a storage array (iSCSI SAN) that is performing badly, and
requires some upgrades/reconfiguration. I have a se
On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Jonathan Loran wrote:
>
> Now I know this is counterculture, but it's biting me in the back side
> right now, and ruining my life.
>
> I have a storage array (iSCSI SAN) that is performing badly, and
> requires some upgrades/reconfiguration. I have a second storage ar
Now I know this is counterculture, but it's biting me in the back side
right now, and ruining my life.
I have a storage array (iSCSI SAN) that is performing badly, and
requires some upgrades/reconfiguration. I have a second storage array
that I wanted to set up as a ZFS mirror so I could fre
