Yeah, I am not sure what docs I was originally looking at...
Although we may want to ensure that the ZFS Admin Guide is a bit more clear
on the matter:
Additional disks can be added similarly to a RAID-Z configuration.
Malachi
On 4/8/07, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[top-posting corrected]
On April 8, 2007 1:43:48 PM -0700 Malachi de Ælfweald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 4/7/07, Eric Haycraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> You cannot add 1 drive at a time to a raid-z or raid-2z. You need to
add
>> the same number of disks that were used per stripe.. So, if you start
>> with 5 disks, you would have to add 5 more in the future to add disk
>> space. There is also a method of swapping each disk one at a time with
a
>> larger disk and performing a scrub inbetween each replacement to
>> increase the pool size.
>
> Hmmm... I definitely missed this one... I thought the documentation said
> that using zpool attach would add a new drive to the existing raidz(2)
and
> then it would start resilvering...
zpool(1M):
zpool attach [-f] pool device new_device
Attaches new_device to an existing zpool device. The
existing device cannot be part of a raidz configuration.
-frank
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