On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:25 PM, alex stun <a...@stundzia.com> wrote:
> I have a zpool consisting of several mirrored vdevs. I was in the middle of > adding another mirrored vdev today, but found out one of the new drives is > bad. I will be receiving the replacement drive in a few days. In the mean > time, I need the additional storage on my zpool. > > Is the command to add a single drive to a mirrored zpool: > zpool add -f tank drive1? > > Does the -f command cause any issues? > I realize that there will be no redundancy on that drive for a few days, > and I can live with that as long as the rest of my zpool remains intact. > Note: you will have 0 redundancy on the ENTIRE POOL, not just that one vdev. If that non-redundant vdev dies, you lose the entire pool. Are you willing to take that risk, if one of the new drives is already DoA? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com
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