Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-25 Thread Ben
Thanks very much everyone. Victor, I did think about using VirtualBox, but I have a real machine and a supply of hard drives for a short time, for I'll test it out using that if I can. Scott, of course, at work we use three mirrors and it works very well, has saved us on occasion where we

[zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
Hi all, I have a ZFS mirror of two 500GB disks, I'd like to up these to 1TB disks, how can I do this? I must break the mirror as I don't have enough controller on my system board. My current mirror looks like this: [b]r...@beleg-ia:/share/media# zpool status share pool: share state: ONLINE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:14:52 PDT Ben no-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: If I detach c5d1s0, add a 1TB drive, attach that, wait for it to resilver, then detach c5d0s0 and add another 1TB drive and attach that to the zpool, will that up the storage of the pool? That will do the trick perfectly. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
dick hoogendijk schrieb: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:14:52 PDT Ben no-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: If I detach c5d1s0, add a 1TB drive, attach that, wait for it to resilver, then detach c5d0s0 and add another 1TB drive and attach that to the zpool, will that up the storage of the pool? That

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
Thomas, Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself in a mess and having to reinstall, thus losing my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
Many thanks Thomas, I have a test machine so I shall try it on that before I try it on my main system. Thanks very much once again, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 24.06.09 17:10, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Ben schrieb: Thomas, Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread George Wilson
Ben wrote: Hi all, I have a ZFS mirror of two 500GB disks, I'd like to up these to 1TB disks, how can I do this? I must break the mirror as I don't have enough controller on my system board. My current mirror looks like this: [b]r...@beleg-ia:/share/media# zpool status share pool: share

Re: [zfs-discuss] Increase size of ZFS mirror

2009-06-24 Thread Scott Lawson
Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Ben schrieb: Thomas, Could you post an example of what you mean (ie commands in the order to use them)? I've not played with ZFS that much and I don't want to muck my system up (I have data backed up, but am more concerned about getting myself in a mess and