Robert Rodriguez <robertro <at> comcast.net> writes: > > A couple of follow up question, have you done anything similar before?
I have done similar manipulations to experiment with ZFS (using files instead of drives). > Can you assess the risk involved here? If any one of your 8 drives die during the procedure, you are going to lose some data, plain and simple. I would especially be worried about the 2 brand new drives that were just bought. You are probably the best person to estimate the probability of them dying, as you know their history (have been running 24/7 for 1-2 years with periodical scrubs and not a single pb ? then they are probably ok). IMHO you can reduce the risk a lot by scrubbing everything: - before you start, scrub your existing pool (pool #1) - scrub pool #2 after copying data to it and before destroying pool #1 - scrub pool #1 (made of sparse files) and pool #3 (backing the sparse files) after copying from pool #2 to #1 - rescrub pool #1 after replacing the sparse files with real drives > Does the fact that the pool is currently at 90% usage change this > in any way. Nope. -marc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
