So are there now any methods to achieve the scenario I described to shrink a pools size with existing ZFS tools? I don't see a definitive way listed on the old shrinking thread<http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=8125> .
Thank you, -Chris On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Richard Elling <rich...@nexenta.com> wrote: > On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Chris Mosetick wrote: > > > Can anyone elaborate on the "zpool split" command. I have not seen any > examples in use am I am very curious about it. Say I have 12 disks in a > pool named tank. 6 in a RAIDZ2 + another 6 in a RAIDZ2. All is well, and > I'm not even close to maximum capacity in the pool. Say I want to swap out > 6 of the 12 SATA disks for faster SAS disks, and make a new 6 disk pool with > just the SAS disks, leaving the existing pool with the SATA disks intact. > > zpool split only works on mirrors. > > For examples, see the section "Creating a New Pool By Splitting a Mirrored > ZFS > Storage Pool" in the ZFS Admin Guide. > -- richard > > -- > OpenStorage Summit, October 25-27, Palo Alto, CA > http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com > > Richard Elling > rich...@nexenta.com +1-760-896-4422 > Enterprise class storage for everyone > www.nexenta.com > > > > > >
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