On 07 June, 2008 - Fu Leow sent me these 1,1K bytes: > 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.
Currently, yes. It's being worked on as far as I know. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
