On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 04/17/10 09:34 AM, MstAsg wrote: >> I have a question. I have a disk that solaris 10& zfs is installed. I >> wanted to add the other disks and replace this with the other. (totally >> three others). If I do this, I add some other disks, would the data be >> written immediately? Or only the new data is mirrored? Or I should use >> snapshots to replace that? >> >> > If you add a disk as a mirror, it will be resilvered as an exact copy > (mirror!) of the original.
I'm sure Ian meant "attach a disk as a mirror" rather than "add" :-). In ZFS terminology "attach" is used for mirrors (RAID-1) and "add" is used for stripes (RAID-0) -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
