The problem is this. I have 8 SATA port card. 4 of the slots (0-3) are occupied with 500 GB drives in a ZFS raid, it is named "ZFSraid1". I now want to buy 5 terabyte drives to create a new ZFS raid, which will have the name "ZFSraid2". How can I move the data from ZFSraid1 to ZFSraid2 so I can discard the old discs?
I was thinking of this plan: Unconnect one 500 GB drive from ZFSraid1. Now it only has 3 drives (slots: 0-2), but that doesnt matter because I can still read the data, because it is configured as raidz1. There are 5 empty SATA slots on the SATA card now. Slot 3 is now emptied. Connect 5 terabyte drives to the empty slots, and create a ZFS raid. copy all data from the 3 drives unto these 5 drives. Done. Is this possible to do? What happens when slot 3 gets a terabyte drive? Will ZFS try to repair ZFSraid1 with the terabyte drive because it was inserted into slot 3? Will I be able to create ZFSraid2 with slots 3-7? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
