[zfs-discuss] zfs raidz2 configuration mistake

2008-05-21 Thread Justin Vassallo
Hello, I had a 3-disk raidz2 pool. I wanted to increase throughput and available storage so I added in another 2 disks into the pool with: zpool add -f external c12t0d0p0 zpool add -f external c13t0d0p0 (it wouldn't work without -f, and I believe that's because the fs was online) I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz2 configuration mistake

2008-05-21 Thread Rob Logan
1) Am I right in my reasoning? yes 2) Can I remove the new disks from the pool, and re-add them under the raidz2 pool copy the data off the pool, destroy and remake the pool, and copy back 3) How can I check how much zfs data is written on the actual disk (say c12)?

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz2 configuration mistake

2008-05-21 Thread Mark J Musante
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Justin Vassallo wrote: zpool add -f external c12t0d0p0 zpool add -f external c13t0d0p0 (it wouldn't work without -f, and I believe that's because the fs was online) No, it had nothing to do with the pool being online. It was because a single disk was being added to a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz2 configuration mistake

2008-05-21 Thread Claus Guttesen
zpool add -f external c12t0d0p0 zpool add -f external c13t0d0p0 (it wouldn't work without -f, and I believe that's because the fs was online) No, it had nothing to do with the pool being online. It was because a single disk was being added to a pool with raidz2. The error message that

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz2 configuration mistake

2008-05-21 Thread Mark J Musante
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Claus Guttesen wrote: Aren't one supposed to be able to add more disks to an existing raidz(2) pool and have the data spread all disks in the pool automagically? Alas, that is not yet possible. See Adam's blog for details:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz2 configuration mistake

2008-05-21 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zpool add -f external c12t0d0p0 zpool add -f external c13t0d0p0 (it wouldn't work without -f, and I believe that's because the fs was online) No, it had nothing to do with the pool being online. It was because a single