Re: [zfs-discuss] Difference between add and attach a device?

2007-06-16 Thread Cyron
Hi Neil, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wrote: Rick Mann wrote: Hi. I've been reading the ZFS admin guide, and I don't understand the distinction between adding a device and attaching a device to a pool? attach is used to create or add a side to a mirror. add is to add a new top level vdev where

Re: [zfs-discuss] Difference between add and attach a device?

2007-06-16 Thread Will Murnane
On 6/16/07, Ruben Cyron Wisniewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Neil, That means that I can add more space to my raidz1 with add? You can add another vdev, but you can't change the size of an existing vdev. So if you've got five drives in a vdev, you can't turn that into a 6-disk vdev, but you

[zfs-discuss] Difference between add and attach a device?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've been reading the ZFS admin guide, and I don't understand the distinction between adding a device and attaching a device to a pool? TIA This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Difference between add and attach a device?

2007-06-14 Thread Neil . Perrin
Rick Mann wrote: Hi. I've been reading the ZFS admin guide, and I don't understand the distinction between adding a device and attaching a device to a pool? attach is used to create or add a side to a mirror. add is to add a new top level vdev where that can be a raidz, mirror or single