Hi, I've seen/read a number of articles on the net, about RAIDZ - and things like Dynamic Striping et'al. I know roughly how this works - but I can't seem to get to the bottom of expanding existing pool space, if this is even possible.
e.g. If I build a RAIDZ pool with 5 * 400Gb drives, and later add a 6th 400Gb drive to this pool, will its space instantly be available to volumes using that pool? (I can't quite see this working myself) Other articles, talk about replacing one drive at a time, letting it re-silver, and at the end when the last drive is replaced, the space available to volumes will reflect the new pool size (i.e. replace each 400Gb device in turn with a 750Gb device - when the last one is done, you'll have a 5 * 750Gb pool with all the space (minus RAIDZ overhead) being available). I know I can add additional RAIDZ pools to the volume - but that's only any good for adding numbers of multiple drives, not singles (if you want to continue fault tolerance). Thanks, -Karl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
