Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Auty
Thomas Burgess wrote: Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a development mirror for testing ra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Joe Auty wrote: > Thomas Burgess wrote: > > >> Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... >> >> Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS >> replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a >> development

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Burgess
> > > Yeah, this is what I was thinking too... > > Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS > replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a > development mirror for testing rather than a reliable backup? This is the > only way I know of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-11 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Is there anyway to retain snapshot data this way? I've read about the ZFS replay/mirror features, but my impression was that this was more so for a development mirror for testing rather than a reliable backup? This is the only way I know of that one could do something like this. Is there some

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-11 Thread Joe Auty
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Hello, My understanding is that people are pretty much SOL if they want to reconfigure a RAID-Z or RAID-Z2 dataset to, say, a mirror+stripe? That is, there is no way to do this via a couple of simple commands? Just say, for the purpose of my gen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hello, My understanding is that people are pretty much SOL if they want to reconfigure a RAID-Z or RAID-Z2 dataset to, say, a mirror+stripe? That is, there is no way to do this via a couple of simple commands? Just say, for the purpose of my general enlightenment and filing away for if I

[zfs-discuss] Reconfiguring a RAID-Z dataset

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, My understanding is that people are pretty much SOL if they want to reconfigure a RAID-Z or RAID-Z2 dataset to, say, a mirror+stripe? That is, there is no way to do this via a couple of simple commands? Just say, for the purpose of my general enlightenment and filing away for if I deci