So there is no current way to specify the creation of a 3 disk raid-z array with a known missing disk?
On 12/5/06, David Bustos <david.bus...@sun.com> wrote: > Quoth Thomas Garner on Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:41:15PM -0500: > > I currently have a 400GB disk that is full of data on a linux system. > > If I buy 2 more disks and put them into a raid-z'ed zfs under solaris, > > is there a generally accepted way to build an degraded array with the > > 2 disks, copy the data to the new filesystem, and then move the > > original disk to complete the array? > > No, because we currently can't add disks to a raidz array. You could > create a mirror instead and then add in the other disk to make > a three-way mirror, though. > > Even doing that would be dicey if you only have a single machine, > though, since Solaris can't natively read the popular Linux filesystems. > I believe there is freeware to do it, but nothing supported. > > > David > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
