On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Mario Goebbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> c1t5d0 was part of a mirror but with c1t4d0 removed it now appears as >> a single drive. Is there a way to recover from this by recreating the >> mirror with c1t4d0? > > Detaching a drive from a two-way mirror effectively breaks it up and > turns it into a single drive. That's normal. Just attach it back to > c1t5d0 and it'll become a mirror again. > > Retry your experiment by detaching a drive from the RAID-Z array and > you'll see what you were expecting. > > -mg >
Thank you Tomas and Mario. I was able to recreate the mirror by reattaching. It seems that once a vdev has been added to a pool it is no longer possible to remove it. Is that right? For example if I created a pool that consisted of 3 single drives there would not be a way to remove a drive and reduce the number of devices in a pool from 3 to 2. Even if there is enough space in those 2 remaining drives to hold all the data. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
