Chris Gilligan wrote: > ok maybe i should rewrite my question in a better way. >
No, the reason nobody answered was that this a frequent FAQ, second only to CR 4852783 reduce pool capacity. Cindy, can we update the opensolaris.org FAQ to include some words about these two questions? -- richard > My data is mostly made up of things i can afford to lose but would very much > not like to lose if a disk dies if at all possible. Due to this i have used > a raid5 array in the past. The issue i have had with this is a need to > replace all 10 disks at once to increase my storage in the raid and borrow > another raid card so i can connect all 20 disks at once while i move the data. > > What i would like to be able to do is slowly grow my capacity by replacing > 320gb disks with 1tb disks one at a time and sometimes adding in extra disks > to the system as i can support up to 12 disks. Does anyone have any ideas on > the best way to do this with minimum space loss? > > This just home based storage so i am trying to do everything on the cheap. I > thought raidz may have been the answer but that does not seem to be the case. > > CHris > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
