--On 23 August 2008 17:01 -0700 hunter morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ok so i have 3 500gb hard drives in my freebsd fileserver. they are set > up in a pool as a raidz1 of 3 and another raidz1 of 2. like this: I'm guessing that's a typo - and you mean '5' hard drives, not 3 ;) > pool0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ad2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ad4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ad8 ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ad10 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ideally i would like them to be in a single raidz2 vdev and its not time > for buying more hard drives yet. i was thinking worst case i would buy 5 > 500 gb hard drives and set up the raidz2 on them and move the data over > and then copy that setup back to the original drives and return the > bought ones but its a pain obviously. is there anyway i can just tell > zfs to make it magically do what i want? You cannot 'promote' a raidz1 to raidz2 - building the new array and shifting the data across is one way you can do this... Or, make sure your backup solution is good (you do have a backup? :), delete the current pool - re-create it the way you want, and restore from a backup. Just remember to make sure the backup is verifiably 'good' - and if possible do two :) -Kp _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
