We have a ZFS mirror setup of two 73GB's disk, but we are running out of space.
I want to break the mirror and join the disk to have a pool of 146GB, and of
course not lose the data doing this. What are the commands?
To break the mirror I would do
zpool detach moodle c1t3d0
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Hey Kory,
I think you must mean can you detach one of the 73GB disks from moodle
and then add it to another pool of 146GB and you want to save the
data from the 73GB disk?
You can't do this and save the data. By using zpool detach, you are
removing any knowledge of ZFS from that disk.
If you
(I think Cindy is thinking of something else :-)
Kory Wheatley wrote:
We have a ZFS mirror setup of two 73GB's disk, but we are running out of
space. I want to break the mirror and join the disk to have a pool of 146GB,
and of course not lose the data doing this. What are the commands?
To
Hi Kory,
Yes, I get it now. You want to detach one of the disks and then readd
the same disk, but lose the redundancy of the mirror.
Just as long as you realize you're losing the redundancy.
I'm wondering if zpool add will complain. I don't have a system to
try this at the moment.
Cindy
Kory
Kory,
Yes, I get it now. You want to detach one of the disks and then readd
the same disk, but lose the redundancy of the mirror.
Just as long as you realize you're losing the redundancy.
I'm wondering if zpool add will complain. I don't have a system to
try this at the moment.
The
