Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-28 Thread MC
> [most people don't seem to know Solaris has ramdisk devices] That is because only a select few are able to unravel the enigma wrapped in a clue that is solaris :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-28 Thread Daniel Rock
Brandon High schrieb: > 1. Create a sparse file on an existing filesystem. The size should be > the same as your disks. > 2. Create the raidz with 4 of the drives and the sparse file. > 3. Export the zpool. > 4. Delete the sparse file > 5. Import the zpool. It should come up as degraded, since one

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-28 Thread Richard Elling
Tomas Ögren wrote: > On 27 September, 2008 - Brandon High sent me these 1,0K bytes: > > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., with >>> one disk offline)? In that case I could use

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 27 September, 2008 - Brandon High sent me these 1,0K bytes: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., with > > one disk offline)? In that case I could use one of the 1 TB disks as > > The o

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
"Brandon High" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., > > with one disk offline)? > > [...] > 1. Create a sparse file on an existing filesystem. The size should

Re: [zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., with > one disk offline)? In that case I could use one of the 1 TB disks as The official answer is no, but it might be possible to fool Solaris into lettin

[zfs-discuss] create raidz with 1 disk offline

2008-09-27 Thread Marcus Sundman
Hi, I'm about to convert my 3 * 1 TB raidz to a 5 * 1 TB raidz. Since raidz can't be grown like that I have to find some place to move the data to temporarily while I reformat the raidz. However, I'm short on disk space (which is why I'm adding 2 new disks). So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 T