Krzys wrote: > Hello everyone, I am slowly running out of space in my zpool.. so I wanted to > replace my zpool with a different zpool.. > > my current zpool is >> zpool list > NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT > mypool 278G 263G 14.7G 94% ONLINE - > >> zpool status mypool > pool: mypool > state: ONLINE > status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will > continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. > action: Wait for the resilver to complete. > scrub: resilver in progress, 11.37% done, 10h0m to go > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > mypool ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > errors: No known data errors > > (yes I know its resilvering one of the disks...) > > > Anyway that is a simple mirror zpool, I would like to create another pool > lets > say mypool2 with few more disks and use raidz2 instead... What would be my > options to do this transfer?
"zfs send" -- which will be much simpler when I finish "zfs send -R". > I cannot attach to this existing pool disks, I don > tthink thats an option because thats mirror and not raidz2... Well, you *can*, it just isn't recommended. > can I create > raidz2 and just add it to mypool using zpool add option? Yes. > and then when its added > is there any way to remove originall mirror out of it? No, not until we implement pool size reduction. > Now the tricky part is I > have lots of snapshots on that mypool and I would like to keep them... You can use "zfs send -i" to send all the snapshots. > Another > option that I think I have is just create mypool2 as I want it to be which is > raidz2 and then use zfs send and receive to move data around and then restroy > original mirror when I am done replacing it with this one... Yep. > What do you think? what would you recommend? with the second option I > probably > would need to take system offline and do it With zfs send, you'd have to take it offline just for a few minutes to do the final incremental send of your filesystems, and switch over to using the new pool. --matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
