Quick ZFS mirroring question for non-mirrored pool

[Kaya Saman]

Many thanks for the response! :-)

I'm quite sure that this is going to be more stable and less error-prone 
then any other file system....

Although currently I find the UFS v1 and v2 file systems the best 
outside of ZFS which is by default enabled on OpenSolaris.

Yeah.... this should be cool!


On 05/16/2010 02:44 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2010, Kaya Saman wrote:
>>
>> if it's possible to add a mirror to a non-mirrored pool??
>
> Yes.  In a simple load-shared pool, individual disk vdevs on the pool 
> can easily be turned into mirror vdevs.  Later you can convert back to 
> simplex if you like.  This means that you can create the simple 
> load-shared pool and add redundancy later.  I have done this before.
>
> Just make sure to read the documentation so that you add the mirror 
> disk correctly.
>
> Bob