On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Daniel <ne...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm using zfs not to have access to a fail-safe backed up system, but to > easily manage my file system. I would like to be able to, as I buy new > harddrives, just to be able to replace the old ones. I'm very > environmentally concious, so I don't want to leave old drives in there to > consume power as they've already been replaced by larger ones. However, ZFS > doesn't currently let me detach a non-mirrored device. Is this planned for > the future at all? I would imagine something like this: > > zpool detach --non-mirrored dev ... > detaching non-mirrored dev... wait for data to be copied > > or even > > zpool detach --non-mirrored dev ... > detaching non-mirrored dev... there's not sufficient space to be able to > remove dev > > etc. > > I hope my explanation is clear in that obviously the data would have to be > copied, possibly to the new drive I've added, as I want to remove the old > one. >
vdev evacuation has been talked about, but there's still no plans for anyone from Sun to implement it that I'm aware of as none of their large enterprise customers have requested it. --Tim
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