Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-07-08 Thread Marc Bevand
Matt Harrison genestate.com> writes: > > Aah, excellent, just did an export/import and its now showing the > expected capacity increase. Thanks for that, I should've at least tried > a reboot :) More recent OpenSolaris builds don't even need the export/import anymore when expanding a raidz thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-07-07 Thread Matt Harrison
Arne Schwabe wrote: > A time ago a zpool needed a export/import to get to the new capacity (or > a reboot). I don't know if this still holds true but it is worth a try. > > Arne Aah, excellent, just did an export/import and its now showing the expected capacity increase. Thanks for that, I shoul

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-07-07 Thread Arne Schwabe
Matt Harrison schrieb: > James C. McPherson wrote: > >> Matt Harrison wrote: >> >> >>> I seem to have overlooked the first part of your reply, I can just >>> replace the disks one at a time, and of course the pool would rebuild >>> itself onto the new disk. Would this automatically ext

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-07-07 Thread Matt Harrison
James C. McPherson wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: > >> I seem to have overlooked the first part of your reply, I can just >> replace the disks one at a time, and of course the pool would rebuild >> itself onto the new disk. Would this automatically extend the size of >> the pool once all 3 disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James C. McPherson wrote: | Matt Harrison wrote: | |> I seem to have overlooked the first part of your reply, I can just |> replace the disks one at a time, and of course the pool would rebuild |> itself onto the new disk. Would this automatically

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread James C. McPherson
Matt Harrison wrote: > I seem to have overlooked the first part of your reply, I can just > replace the disks one at a time, and of course the pool would rebuild > itself onto the new disk. Would this automatically extend the size of > the pool once all 3 disks are replaced? Yes - once the re

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Harrison wrote: | Tomas Ögren wrote: | | On 28 June, 2008 - Matt Harrison sent me these 0,6K bytes: | | | |> Hi gurus, | |> | |> Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. | |> | |> Lets say I have simple pool made up

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomas Ögren wrote: | On 28 June, 2008 - Matt Harrison sent me these 0,6K bytes: | |> Hi gurus, |> |> Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. |> |> Lets say I have simple pool made up of 3 750gb SATA disks in raidz1, |>

Re: [zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 28 June, 2008 - Matt Harrison sent me these 0,6K bytes: > Hi gurus, > > Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. > > Lets say I have simple pool made up of 3 750gb SATA disks in raidz1, > giving around 1.3tb usable space. If we wanted to upgrade the disks, >

[zfs-discuss] planning for upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi gurus, Just wanted some input on this for the day when an upgrade is necessary. Lets say I have simple pool made up of 3 750gb SATA disks in raidz1, giving around 1.3tb usable space. If we wanted to upgrade the disks, what is the accepted procedure? There are 6 SATA ports in the machine in