Mike DeMarco wrote:
> I currently have a zpool with two 8Gbyte disks in it. I need to replace them 
> with a single 56Gbyte disk.
>
> with veritas I would just add the disk in as a mirror and break off the other 
> plex then destroy it.
>
> I see no way of being able to do this with zfs.
>
> Being able to migrate data without having to unmount and remount filesystems 
> is very 
> important to me.
>
> Can anyone say when such functionality will be implemented?
>   

If the original pool is a mirror, the it is trivial and has been a
features since day one.  zpool attach the new disk.
zpool detach the old disks.

If the original pool is not a mirror, then it can get more
complicated, but depends on what you want it to look
like in the long term...
 -- richard

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