Hi there,
Just got my hands on a copy of Nevada b27 and have started playing with zfs and 
zpool, and already have run myself into a corner.  Is it possible to remove 
storage from a storage pool without using zpool destroy?
Let's say I want to migrate from one storage type to another online, for 
example a mirrored volume to a raidz volume.
If I create the volume with zpool create testpool mirror c1t5d0 c1t6d0 for 
example, I know that I can add the raidz volume with something like zpool add 
-f testpool raidz c1t2d0 c1t3d0 c1t4d0 is it possible then to remove the 
original mirror pair?  Or maybe replace one of the mirror components with a 
raidz set?  I was hoping that this flexibility was available to make migration 
from one type of storage array to another [u]really[/u] easy, something like 
start with old array and storage layout then zpool add ( new and shiny ) and 
zpool drop ( old and busted ) wait for i/o to complete and disconnect.
Perhaps I am being a little greedy here :)

First impressions are that ZFS is excellent and I am looking forward to trying 
more and more of the features later on, congratulations to everyone involved!

All the best,
Alan
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