On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Scott Lawson <scott.law...@manukau.ac.nz> wrote:
> No. There is no way to expand a RAIDZ or RAIDZ2 at this point. It is a > feature that is often discussed > and people would like, but has been seen by Sun as more of a feature home > users would like rather2 > than enterprise users. Enterprise users are expected to buy a 4 or more > disks and create another RAIDZ2 > vdev and add it to the pool to increase space. You would of course have this > option.. Yeah, I get it. It definately would seem to be more for the lower-cost market, since enterprises have $$ :) > However by the time that you fill it there might be a solution. Adam > Leventhal proposed a way that > this could be implemented on his blog, so I suspect at some point in the > next few years somebody will > implement it and you will possible have the option to do so then. (after and > OS and ZFS version upgrade) > > http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/expand_o_matic_raid_z Well - years / etc. is not my timeline... in a few years I could buy a normal-size chassis and put 4TB disks in there and not care about my physical limitations :) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
