larger disk for a zfs pool
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Aug 1 14:38:01 UTC 2011
In the last episode (Aug 01), Dick Hoogendijk said:
> OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks
> for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a
> larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace the second
> one for a larger disk and wait for the resilvering again. That's it.
> Been there, done that. But my feeling tells me it is not that simple for
> a FreeBSD zfs root system, or is it?
Should be the same procedure. Make sure you either use "zpool online -e"
when swapping in the new disks, or that you have the zpool autoexpand=on
attribute set.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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