Chris, You would need to replace all the disks to see the expanded space. Otherwise, space on the 1-2 larger disks would be wasted. If you replace all the disks with larger disks, then yes, the disk space in the raidz config would be expanded.
A ZFS mirrored config would be more flexible but it uses more space, obviously. For example, you could start with a two-disk mirrored config, replace those disks with large disks, eventually add another two-disk mirror, or even add disks to create two 3-way mirrors. Then, change your mind and detach one disk from each mirror. I hope you've seen the best practices site. You might get more ideas about whether you want to use slices or not. Eventually, you could replace a sliced config with a whole disk config... http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide Cindy Chris Gilligan wrote: >>Chris, >> >>You can replace the disks one at a time with larger >>disks. No problem. >>You can also add another raidz vdev, but you can't >>add disks to an >>existing raidz vdev. >> >>See the sample output below. This might not solve all >>your problems, >>but should give you some ideas... >> >>Cindy > > > Cindy, > What you said would be perfect if i could just replace 1-2 disks at a time > (think per month). What i might need to do is split the disks into multi > partitions so i can use all the space but then again that wont work as you > can not add to a raidz. Also are you sure the size of a raidz will increase > if you replace all the disks? > > If the raidz supports disks of different sizes in the raid i would be set. I > noticed some discussion on this topic but for now it seems like it is not > looking good. > > I guess there just is not really any file systems designed for buget file > storage expansion. I was really hoping there was a way. but even replacing > 5-6 disks at once is too costly for me > > 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
