[zfs-discuss] Re: simple Raid-Z question

2007-04-08 Thread Erik Trimble
Eric Haycraft wrote: Since no one seems to believe that you can expand a raidz pool, I have attached the following output from solaris 11/06 showing me doing just that. The first expanision is with like sized disks, and the second expansion is with larger disks. I realize that the documentation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: simple Raid-Z question

2007-04-08 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
MC, If you originally had 4 * 500 GB disks configured in RAID-Z, you cannot add 1 single disk and grow the capacity of the pool (with same protection). This is not allowed. Regards, Sanjeev. MC wrote: Two conflicting answers to the same question? I guess we need someone to break the tie

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: simple Raid-Z question

2007-04-08 Thread Manoj Joseph
Erik Trimble wrote: While expanding a zpool in the way you've show is useful, it has nowhere near the flexibility of simply adding single disks to existing RAIDZ vdevs, which was the original desire expressed. This conversation has been had several times now (take a look in the archives

[zfs-discuss] Re: simple Raid-Z question

2007-04-07 Thread MC
Two conflicting answers to the same question? I guess we need someone to break the tie :) Hello, I have been reading alot of good things about Raid-z, but before I jump into it I have one unanswered question i can't find a clear answer for. Is it possible to enlarge the initial RAID

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: simple Raid-Z question

2007-04-07 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
I was considering the same thing (but with 250GB drives) and instead decided to start with 5*250GB so that I could do raid-z2 instead thinking that once you add one more drive you'd rather have raidz2 than raidz On 4/7/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two conflicting answers to the same