On 17 Jun 11, at 21:14 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Jim Klimov wrote: >> I gather that he is trying to expand his root pool, and you can >> not add a vdev to one. Though, true, it might be possible to >> create a second, data pool, in the partition. I am not sure if >> zfs can make two pools in different partitions of the same >> device though - underneath it still uses Solaris slices, and >> I think those can be used on one partition. That was my >> assumption for a long time, though never really tested. > > This would be a bad assumption. Zfs should not care and you are able to do > apparently silly things with it. Sometimes allowing potentially silly things > is quite useful. >
This is true. If one has mirrored disks, you could do something like I explain here WRT partitioning and resizing pools. http://www.kamiogi.net/Kamiogi/Frame_Dragging/Entries/2009/5/19_Everything_in_Its_Place_-_Moving_and_Reorganizing_ZFS_Storage.html I did some shuffling using Solaris partitions here on a home server, but it was using mirrors of the same geometry disks. You might be able to o a similar shuffle using an external USB drive which was appropriately sized and turn on autoexpand. Mike --- Michael Sullivan m...@axsh.us http://www.axsh.us/ Phone: +1-662-259-8888 Mobile: +1-662-202-7716 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
