Re: [zfs-discuss] Removing Disks from pools

2008-12-18 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:24:26AM +0200, Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > Similarly, adding a device into a raid-Z vdev seems easy to do: All future > writes include that device in the list of devices from which to allocate > blocks. In general, I agree completely. But in practice there are limitatio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Removing Disks from pools

2008-12-18 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 18 December, 2008 - Johan Hartzenberg sent me these 2,7K bytes: > Hello ZFS gurus and fellow fans. > > As we all know ZFS does not _yet_ support relayout of pools. I want to know > whether there is any hope for this to become available in the near future? http://blogs.sun.com/ahrens/entry/ne

[zfs-discuss] Removing Disks from pools

2008-12-18 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
Hello ZFS gurus and fellow fans. As we all know ZFS does not _yet_ support relayout of pools. I want to know whether there is any hope for this to become available in the near future? >From my outside view it sounds like it should be possible to set a flag to stop allocating new blocks from a sp