On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Mattias Pantzare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Peter Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a 7x150GB drive (+1 spare) raidz pool that I need to expand.
>> There are 6 open drive bays, so I bought 6 300GB drives and went to
>> add them as a raidz vdev to the existing zpool, but I didn't realize
>> the raidz vdevs needed to have the same number of drives. (why is
>> that?)
>
> They do not have to have the same number of drivers, you can even mix
> raidz and plain
> disks. That is more a recommendation. Add -f to the command.
>
What is the risk of creating a pool consisting of two raidz vdevs that
don't have the same number of disks?
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