A couple questions out of pure curiosity. Working on the assumption that you are going to be adding more drives to your server, why not just add the new drives to the Supermicro controller and keep the existing pool (well vdev) where it is?
Reading your blog, it seems that you need one (or two if you are mirroring) SATA ports for your rpool. Why not just migrate two drives to the new controller and leave the others where they are? OpenSolaris won't card where the drives are physically connected as long as you export/import. -Jebnor On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 16:21 -0700, Simon Breden wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using 6 SATA ports from the motherboard but I've now run out of SATA > ports, and so I'm thinking of adding a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8-port SATA > controller card. > > What is the procedure for migrating the drives to this card? > Is it a simple case of (1) issuing a 'zpool export pool_name' command, (2) > shutdown, (3) insert card and move all SATA cables for drives from mobo to > card, (4) boot and issue a 'zpool import pool_name' command ? > > Thanks, > Simon > > http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- Louis-Frédéric Feuillette <jeb...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
