On 27 September, 2008 - Brandon High sent me these 1,0K bytes: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., with > > one disk offline)? In that case I could use one of the 1 TB disks as > > The official answer is no, but it might be possible to fool Solaris > into letting you do it. I haven't tired this, so I don't know if it'll > work. > > 1. Create a sparse file on an existing filesystem. The size should be > the same as your disks. > 2. Create the raidz with 4 of the drives and the sparse file. > 3. Export the zpool. > 4. Delete the sparse file > 5. Import the zpool. It should come up as degraded, since one of its > vdevs is missing. > 6. Copy your files onto the zpool. > 7. replace the file vdev with the 5th disk. > > Like I said, I haven't tried this but it might work. I'd love to hear > if it does.
I just tried (mkfile in /tmp) on both Sol10u5 and snv97, both seems to work. /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
