Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-27 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Kevin Walker indigoskywal...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know if it is viable to add larger disks to zfs pool to grow the pool size and then remove the smaller disks? I would assume this would degrade the pool and require it to resilver? You can do a zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-27 Thread David Magda
On Oct 27, 2010, at 21:17, Brandon High wrote: You may be able to replace more than one drive at the same time this way. I've never tried it, and you should test before attempting to do so. If the OP doesn't have a test system available, it may be possible to try this multi-replace

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-27 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: If the OP doesn't have a test system available, it may be possible to try this multi-replace experiment using plain files as the backing store (created with mkfile). .. or via a VirtualBox, VMWare, or other virtualization

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Walker
Hi Guys, We are a running a Solaris 10 production server being used for backup services within our DC. We have 8 500GB drives in a zpool and we wish to swap them out 1 by 1 for 1TB drives. I would like to know if it is viable to add larger disks to zfs pool to grow the pool size and then remove

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 07/10/2010 11:22, Kevin Walker wrote: We are a running a Solaris 10 production server being used for backup services within our DC. We have 8 500GB drives in a zpool and we wish to swap them out 1 by 1 for 1TB drives. I would like to know if it is viable to add larger disks to zfs pool to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Walker We are a running a Solaris 10 production server being used for backup services within our DC. We have 8 500GB drives in a zpool and we wish to swap them out 1 by 1 for 1TB