You could add these new drives to your zpool. Then you should create a new vdev as a raidz1 or raidz2 vdev, and then add them to your zpool. I suggest raidz2, becuase that gives you greater reliability.
However, you can not remove a vdev. In the future, say that you have swapped your original drives to 4TB, then those small drives will only be a nuisance (unless you swap them to larger drives too). And you can not remove these small drives, you can not remove a vdev. They will only suck power and make noice. Therefore, I myself, would not have added them to your zpool. Instead I would have created another zpool2 of these small drives. That zpool2 you can destroy later if you wish. I am building a zpool with 8 of 1TB drives. In the future, I will just swap them to 2TB or 4TB drives, when I need more capacity. Instead of adding lots and lots of small drives. They will only give med headache later when 4TB drives are common. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
