Hello Bob, Thank you for your reply. Your final sentence is a gem I will keep.
As far as the rest, I have a lot of production server that are (2) drive systems, and I really hope that there is a mechanism to quickly R&R dead drives, resilvering aside. I guess I need to do some more RTFMing into this. Jerry K. Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Jerry K wrote: > >> How would this work for servers that support only (2) drives, or systems >> that are configured to have pools of (2) drives, i.e. mirrors, and >> there is no additional space to have a new disk, as shown in the sample >> below. > > You may be able to accomplish what you want by using an intermediate > temporary disk and doubling the work (two replacements). Perhaps the > server supports USB so it can use an external USB drive as the initial > replacement. There is also the possibility of replacing the disk with a > suitably sized disk file which is stored on some other server or an > independent local filesystem with enough space. You could access > temporary storage on another server using iSCSI. Server performance may > suck while the inferior temporary device is in place. > > Whatever you do, make sure that the intermediate storage is never any > larger than the final device will be. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
