eric kustarz wrote [in part]
What bits are you running?
s10r2.
thumper-12tb# zpool add backup c7t7d0
invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
mismatched replication level: pool uses raidz and new vdev is disk
interesting. that helps.
Did you use the -f flag
ozan s. yigit wrote:
we thought we would try adding a disk to an existing raidz pool
named backup:
# zpool status
...
NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM
backup ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz ONLINE 0 0 0
c4t2d0 ONLINE 0
thanks for confirming my observation vis a vis the failure characteristics
of the pool. this is strictly experimentation as well; we thought there may
be no way to extend a raidz pool seamlessly, but wanted to test to see what
zpool did.
since the fundamental safety property of the pool is blown
On 10/25/06, ozan s. yigit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ah. looks like the new disk is not a part of the raidz set,
yet the diskspace in the pool increased appropriately.
Yes. A pool can hold many vdevs, an uses the space in all of them.
if this
pool is used as is, can it still offer the raid
we thought we would try adding a disk to an existing raidz pool
named backup:
# zpool status
...
NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM
backup ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz ONLINE 0 0 0
c4t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
