On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Wolfraider wrote:

>> Mirrors are made with vdevs (LUs or disks), not
>> pools.  However, the
>> vdev attached to a mirror must be the same size (or
>> nearly so) as the
>> original. If the original vdevs are 4TB, then a
>> migration to a pool made
>> with 1TB vdevs cannot be done by replacing vdevs
>> (mirror method).
>> -- richard
> 
> Both luns that we are sharing out with comstar are vdevs. It sounds like we 
> can create the new temporary pool, create a couple new luns the same size as 
> the old ones and then create mirrors between the two. Wait until it is synced 
> and break the mirror. This is what we were thinking we could do, just wanted 
> to make sure.

This can work, and you create make the temporary iSCSI targets as 
compressed, sparse volumes.  If your 100TB of data will squeeze into 
40TB, then it is just a matter of time to copy.
 -- richard

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