That's right - RAIDZ (and mirroring) only use the space of the smallest
disk in the group, so they should normally be all the same size.  As with
other uses of `zpool attach` (to mirrors), the new drive needs to be no
smaller than the existing disks.

--matt

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:09 PM Anthony D'Atri <anthony.da...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nice.  Is it the case that added drives must be the same -- or no smaller
> than -- existing drives in the RAID-Z group?  The documentarian in me would
> call that out explicitly.
>
> On Nov 8, 2023, at 19:01, Don Brady <dev.fs....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to announce that the long-awaited *RAIDZ Expansion* feature has
> officially landed in the OpenZFS master branch. This feature will need some
> soak time, but will be available in the OpenZFS 2.3 release, which is
> probably about a year out.
>
> A huge thanks and shout out to Matt Ahrens for the design, implementation,
> and ongoing consultations. Also many thanks to the sponsors, The FreeBSD
> Foundation, iXsystems, Inc., and vStack.
>
> Thanks to our OpenZFS community members for code contributions, testing
> and feedback.  Including:
> Fedor Uporov, Stuart Maybee, Thorsten Behrens, Fmstrat, Mark Maybee, Brian
> Behlendorf, and others.
>
> Cheers,
>   Don Brady
>
> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/5caeef02fa531
>
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