When does the pool get bigger?

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 01:58:05PM +0200, Antti Louko wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 02:00:23PM -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> 
> >> When does the pool get bigger?  The resilver of the last drive has finished,
> >> but the pool still reads
> 
> >> ... which is the size with 750G drives.
> 
> > You need to export/import the pool once.
> 
> A related issue. It is probably more of a generic ZFS code base thing,
> but what do you think?
> 
> It would be a nice idea to be able to _prevent_ ZFS pool from groving
> automatically. This could be a flag in the pool label or anything. This
> is not a real issue in FreeBSD at least for me because it is in any case
> better to use glabel to label partitions so that the names don't change
> between reboots when devices are added and removed.
> 
> But with pool using whole disks this would be useful if one wants to
> keep pool at certain size eg. to be able to temporarily use larger disks
> and later move back to original-size disks.

This wouldn't be an issue at all if the pool could shrink.
Since it is on the TODO list I will wait.

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