Hope I'm posting this in the right place. I've got a RAIDZ2 volume made of 14 SATA 1TB drives. The box they're in is absolutely packed full; I know of no way to add any additional drives, or internal SATA connectors. I have a dying drive in the array (hereafter "drive N"). Obviously I should replace it. But how?
The best method would be to add the new drive, "zpool replace" drive N with drive 15, and remove the old drive. But I'd have to use an external enclosure for drive 15, so I wouldn't want this to be the permanent layout. I actually tried it this way, thinking that I could then remove the old drive N, move "drive 15" into the chassis and give it drive N's connector, and go from there. But I could not for the life of me figure out how to tell ZFS "I moved drive 15 to drive N". I could swap the dying drive with the fresh drive, then run an in-place "zpool replace". But the drive isn't [i]dead,[/i] it is merely [i]dying[/i]. That seems like overkill. What's the best approach to replacing drives if I'm out of internal connectors? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
