Re: can another disk be added to a zfs stripe

From: Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:52:46 UTC
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 11:05 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
>
> Hello fs@
>
> On a 13-stable host I have a 13-stable bhyve guest.
> The vdisk is a 64GB zvol. In the guest, the filesystem is
> also zfs. I'd like to add another 64GB zvol to this zfs, and
> for the resulting zfs system (zroot) to remain a stripe.
>
> Is it simply a case of, within the guest (after booting the
> guest with an additional -d pointing to the unused-at-that-point
> zvol) and running 'zpool add zroot vtblk1' ?
>
> It's important the zpool remains a stripe not a mirror.
>
> Or is there a better way of doing this?
>
> tia,
> --

Yes, that should work.  But why would you want to?  If it's just a
matter of adding space to the guest, you'd be better off simply
enlarging the zvol.