On Sun, 22.02.2009 at 22:45:40 +0100, Michael Neumann wrote: > Am Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:33:44 -0800> schrieb Jeremy Chadwick > <[email protected]>: > > What you're trying to describe won't work, for the same reason I > > described above (with your "zpool add tank ad8s1" command). You can > > split the disk into two pieces if you want, but it's not going to > > change the fact that you cannot *grow* a zpool. You literally have to > > destroy it and recreate it for the pool to increase in size. > > Ah okay, that's probably because the filesystem and RAID system are too > tighly bundled in ZFS. So if I understand correctly, you can't grow a > ZFS RAID-5 pool or anything similar to RAID-5. > Now the ZFS filesystem probably can only use blocks from one pool, so > the result is that you can't grow a ZFS filesystem living on a RAID-5+ > pool as well. A bad example of coupling...
No, no, no! You really think Sun would come up with this shiny new technology in 2005 (?) and it cannot grow a filesystem? Jesus ... Please read the other mails in this thread, thanks! Cheers, Ulrich Spörlein -- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
