On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> so I can add individual disks to the existing tank zpool anytime i want? > > Yes, but you wouldn't want to do that. (And zpool might not like it.) > > If you just add a disk, it just gets added as a new device. So you have > unprotected storage. so you're saying i should add 7 disks to match the existing setup (or at least 2 disks so it has some sort of redundancy) and i would run zpool add tank raidz1 disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5 disk6 disk7 ... if my goal is to use 7 disks. this would allow it to become part of one large storage pool with two identical types of redundancy setups (separate from each other, like two physically different raidsets combined, though, which is fine) > In particular, you can't grow the existing raidz. What you're doing > here is adding > a second raidz1 vdev. That's good because the 2nd phase of your storage is > just like the first phase. i guess this is redundant, but would i be able to "see" these as one large storage pool, or would i essentially have tank and tank2? is there a way to combine them? just the command above? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
