Re: [zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-16 Thread Ivan Wang
Would the bootloader have issues here? On x86 I would imagine that you would have to reload grub, would a similar thing need to be done on SPARC? Yeah, that's also what I'm thinking, apparently zfs mirror doesn't take care of boot sector. So as of now, estimating size of a zfs root pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-13 Thread Ivan Wang
Erik Trimble wrote: After both drives are replaced, you will automatically see the additional space. I believe currently after the last replace an import/export sequence is needed to force zfs to see the increased size. What if root fs is also in this pool? will there be any

Re: [zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-13 Thread Tim Spriggs
Would the bootloader have issues here? On x86 I would imagine that you would have to reload grub, would a similar thing need to be done on SPARC? Ivan Wang wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: After both drives are replaced, you will automatically see the additional space. I believe

[zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-12 Thread Ivan Wang
Hi all, Forgive me if this is a dumb question. Is it possible for a two-disk mirrored zpool to be seamlessly enlarged by gradually replacing previous disk with larger one? Say, in a constrained desktop, only space for two internal disks is available, could I just begin with two 160G disks,

Re: [zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-12 Thread Erik Trimble
Ivan Wang wrote: Hi all, Forgive me if this is a dumb question. Is it possible for a two-disk mirrored zpool to be seamlessly enlarged by gradually replacing previous disk with larger one? Say, in a constrained desktop, only space for two internal disks is available, could I just

Re: [zfs-discuss] enlarge a mirrored pool

2007-10-12 Thread Neil Perrin
Erik Trimble wrote: Ivan Wang wrote: Hi all, Forgive me if this is a dumb question. Is it possible for a two-disk mirrored zpool to be seamlessly enlarged by gradually replacing previous disk with larger one? Say, in a constrained desktop, only space for two internal disks is