> Darren Dunham wrote: > >> The problem I've come across with using mirror or raidz for this setup > >> is that (as far as I know) you can't add disks to mirror/raidz groups, > >> and if you just add the disk to the pool, you end up in the same > >> situation as above (with more space but no redundancy). > > > > You can't add to an existing mirror, but you can add new mirrors (or > > raidz) items to the pool. If so, there's no loss of redundancy. > > Maybe I'm missing some context, but you can add to an existing mirror > - see zpool attach.
It depends on what you mean by "add". :-) The original message was about increasing storage allocation. You can add redundancy to an existing mirror with attach, but you cannot increase the allocatable storage. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
