[zfs-discuss] Expanding a RAIDZ based Pool...

2007-12-10 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've seen/read a number of articles on the net, about RAIDZ - and things like Dynamic Striping et'al. I know roughly how this works - but I can't seem to get to the bottom of expanding existing pool space, if this is even possible. e.g. If I build a RAIDZ pool with 5 * 400Gb drives, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Expanding a RAIDZ based Pool...

2007-12-10 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:59:22PM +, Karl Pielorz wrote: e.g. If I build a RAIDZ pool with 5 * 400Gb drives, and later add a 6th 400Gb drive to this pool, will its space instantly be available to volumes using that pool? (I can't quite see this working myself) Hi Karl, You can't