No, there are some features we haven't implemented, that may or may not be available in other RAID solutions. In particular:
- ZFS storage pool cannot be 'shrunk', i.e. removing an entire toplevel device (mirror, RAID group, etc). Devices can be removed by attaching and detaching to existing mirrors, but you cannot shrink the overall size of the pool. - ZFS RAID-Z stripes cannot be expanded. ZFS storage pools are all dynamically striped across all device groups. So you can add a new RAID-Z group ((5+1) -> 2x(5+1) for example), but you cannot expand an existing stripe ((5+1) -> (6+1)). There are likely other features that are different and/or missing from other solutions, so it's a little extreme to say you "won't give up ANYTHING". But in terms of large scale features, there's not much besides the two above, and remember that you have a lot to gain ;-) - Eric On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0700, Humberto Ramirez wrote: > Thanks for replying (I thought nobody would bother.) > > So, If understand correctly, I won't give up ANYTHING available in > EVMS. LVM , Linux Raid - by going to ZFS and Raid -Z Right ? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
