I have only one question: why? ZFS is a great filesystem, but, why we
can't shrink a zpool? This is a very important feature to ZFS adoption
in enterprises, or not? Is it at least a planned feature?
Thanks,
Joel
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Daniel ne...@hotmail.com wrote:
Cindy,
This is
Actually, I think it's smaller companies and home users who want this most.
Sun target enterprises with their storage kit which tends to be servers that
are fully populated with drives. Look at the thumper for example - a 4U server
that already comes with 48 drives. You're not going to be
Is it possible to do a replace on the root filesystem as well?
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Is it possible to do a replace on / as well?
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Daniel,
You can replace the disks in both of the supported root pool
configurations:
- single disk (non-redundant) root pool
- mirrored (redundant) root pool
I've tried both recently and I prefer attaching the replacement disk to
the single-disk root pool and then detaching the old disk, using
Cindy,
This is helpful! Thank you very much :)
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Err... you can't remove drives that are in use, but for what you're describing
can't you just use zfs replace and then remove the old drive?
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It is unfortunately that you ask this question after
you've installed the
new disks; now both the old and the new disks are
part of the same zpool.
That's awesome, I did not know that this would work. I'm glad I made this post.
I actually have not yet replaced any drive, in fact, this very
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Daniel ne...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm using zfs not to have access to a fail-safe backed up system, but to
easily manage my file system. I would like to be able to, as I buy new
harddrives, just to be able to replace the old ones. I'm very
environmentally
tcook,
Thanks for your response. Well, I don't imagine there would be a lot of
requests from enterprise customers with deep pockets. My impression has been
that OS is targetting the little guy though, and as such, this would really be
a welcome feature.
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