On 18 December, 2008 - Johan Hartzenberg sent me these 2,7K bytes: > Hello ZFS gurus and fellow fans. > > As we all know ZFS does not _yet_ support relayout of pools. I want to know > whether there is any hope for this to become available in the near future?
http://blogs.sun.com/ahrens/entry/new_scrub_code has some info that it's coming.. > From my outside view it sounds like it should be possible to set a flag to > stop allocating new blocks from a specific device, then start a job to > "touch" each block on the subject device, causing each block to be CoW moved > to one of the other disks until there are no more blocks left on that device > and then finally to clear the device's pool membership status. It would have been this easy, except that ZFS has support for snapshots, clones etc.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, 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
