Christopher May wrote: > Evening all, I'm new to Solaris but after drooling over zfs for ages I > finally took the plunge. > > First off I had 2x1Tb hdd in raid1 XFS format using mdadm, so using a > opensolaris vm image I transfered one side of the mirror to the other in zfs. > (using rsync and it took 3days!) > > So with a 1 disk zpool carrying all my data I brought both the drives over in > a new box, all going swimmingly until I realise that instead of mirroring the > two drives it seems to have stripped them :-/. > > Is there a way to to unstrip them and or convert it to a mirror? The drive > hasnt been written to since so I don't know if zfs automatically starts > stripping the data between the drives. Even to a non-expert the process of > making sure all data is on one disk doesn't sound complicated but I know it > might not be impletmented (yet!) > > Any ideas or will I have to get a 3rd drive to move all the data onto, > destroy the zpool and start from scratch? > > I'm afraid you will. Look on the bright side and count your self lucky you learned this hard lesson early!
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