frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net said: > Well in that case it's invalid to compare against Netapp since they can't do > it either (seems to be the consensus on this list). Neither zfs nor Netapp > (nor any product) is really designed to handle adding one drive at a time. > Normally you have to add an entire shelf, and if you're doing that it's > better to add a new vdev to your pool.
This is incorrect (and another poster has pointed this out). NetApp can add a single drive (or more) to a raid-group, and has been able to do so since before they had dual-parity, aggregates, flex-vols, and rebalancing. BTW, the rebalance after growing an aggregate is not automatic (as of OnTAP-7.3 anyway). You invoke a command manually on each volume that you care about, and the rebalance runs in the background until finished. Regards, Marion _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
