ZFS Question

[Elias Chrysocheris]

>On 8/15/2010 6:17 PM, Elias Chrysocheris wrote:
>> On Monday 16 of August 2010 01:56:10 Depo Catcher wrote:
>>    
>>> Hi, I'm building a new file server.  Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2
>>> and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS.
>>>
>>> Right now I have 3 disks, but one of them has data on it.  I'd like to
>>> setup a RaidZ but have a question on how to do this:
>>> Basically, I need to setup a mirror with the two empty drives, copy the
>>> data over and then add the third.  Is that even possible?
>>>      
>> Do you want to add the third drive as another mirror of the other two or 
>you
>> just want to add it, lets say, for another storage part of your system?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Elias
>>    

>Yes, add it for storage (ie. Raid 5).

Well, I don't know if you can add a hard drive and make it a stripe (RAID 5) 
with others that already have data...

Perhaps you could install the system in a free hard drive, then add the other 
two and make them a mirror. Then you could keep your data in the mirrored pool 
and the operating system, as long as some data that you don't care to be 
mirrored, in the single drive.

But as far as I can understand this is not what you asked for...

Regards
Elias