Re: [zfs-discuss] disk evacuate

2006-06-28 Thread Noel Dellofano
Hey Robert, Well, not yet. Right now our top two priorities are improving performance in multiple areas of zfs(soon there will be a performance page tracking progess on the zfs community page), and also getting zfs boot done. Hence, we're not currently working on heaps of brand new features

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk evacuate

2006-06-27 Thread Noel Dellofano
a zpool remove/shrink type function is on our list of features we want to add. We have RFE 4852783 reduce pool capacity open to track this. Noel Dick Davies wrote: Just wondered if there'd been any progress in this area? Correct me if i'm wrong, but as it stands, there's no way to remove a d

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk evacuate

2006-06-27 Thread Dick Davies
Just wondered if there'd been any progress in this area? Correct me if i'm wrong, but as it stands, there's no way to remove a device you accidentally 'zpool add'ed without destroying the pool. On 12/06/06, Gregory Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, if zpool remove works like you describe, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk evacuate

2006-06-11 Thread Gregory Shaw
Yes, if zpool remove works like you describe, it does the same thing. Is there a time frame for that feature? Thanks! On Jun 11, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Eric Schrock wrote: This only seems valuable in the case of an unreplicated pool. We already have 'zpool offline' to take a device and prevent

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk evacuate

2006-06-11 Thread Eric Schrock
This only seems valuable in the case of an unreplicated pool. We already have 'zpool offline' to take a device and prevent ZFS from talking to it (because it's in the process of failing, perhaps). This gives you what you want for mirrored and RAID-Z vdevs, since there's no data to migrate anyway.

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk evacuate

2006-06-11 Thread Dick Davies
On 11/06/06, Gregory Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pardon me if this scenario has been discussed already, but I haven't seen anything as yet. I'd like to request a 'zpool evacuate pool ' command. 'zpool evacuate' would migrate the data from a disk device to other disks in the pool. Here's the