> <div id="jive-html-wrapper-div"> > <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:42 > AM, Ian Garbutt <span dir="ltr"><<a > href="mailto:ian.g.garb...@newcastle.gov.uk";>ian.g.gar > b...@newcastle.gov.uk</a>></span> > wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" > style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc > solid;padding-left:1ex;"> > Having looked through the forum I gather that you > cannot just add an additional device to to raidz > pool. This being the case is what are the > alternatives that I could to expand a raidz > pool?<br><br></blockquote><div>You can't expand > the number of disks in a raidz vdev (go from 4-disk > raidz1 to a 5-disk raidz1, for example).</div> > <div><br></div><div>However, you can replace each of > the disks in a raidz vdev with larger disks, thus > expanding the total amount of storage available. > We've done this on two of our storage servers, > replacing 500 GB WD disks with 1.5 TB Seagate > disks.</div> > <div><br></div><div>You can also add another raidz > vdev to the pool, thus increasing the total amount of > storage available in the pool (zpool add poolname > raidz disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4, for > example). </div></div><br>-- <br> > Freddie Cash<br><a > href="mailto:fjwc...@gmail.com";>fjwc...@gmail.com</a>< > br> > > </div>_______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu > ss
Its a shame that its not that easy, hopefully something for the future. For my purpose I am going to have to create a new zpool with some new disks in and clone a zone to increase its size. I can't just add another raidz set of disks as we are quite strict on how much storage I call allocate (gets charged back). Thanks for the replies. Ian -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
