On Wed, March 4, 2009 16:53, Julius Roberts wrote: > 2009/3/4 Tim <t...@tcsac.net>: >> I know plenty of "home users" would like the ability to add a single >> disk to >> a raid-z vdev in order to grow a disk at a time. > > +1 for that.
In theory I'd like that a lot. I'm now committed to two two-disk mirrors precisely because I couldn't grow a RAIDZ (and would have to replace all three+ disks to expand it that way); I started with one mirror, added a second when I needed it, and when I need to increase again I will replace the disks in one of the mirrors one at a time letting it resilver (yes, I know I'm not covered by redundancy during that process; I'll do it when my backups are up-to-date. It's a home server and I can have it out of service during the resilver, or in "no guarantee of saving changes" mode.). And on consideration, depending on the expected lifespan of the system, I might be better off sticking with the mirror strategy anyway. Of course RAIDZ is more cost-efficient, but disks are cheap. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
