On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > What if I have 5 200gb drives configured as a raidz pool, and then I > > replace one of the 200gb drives with a 400gb one. Operationally what > > would I do? > > I believe you can do something like > > zpool replace <pool> <device> > > The new device will get "resilvered" -- get all the missing > data put on it and then brought up for operation. This can > take a while. > > Note that you will not be able to use the extra disk until > *all* the disks in a group (mirror or raid) have been > replaced with bigger disks. Does it make sense to partition my disks into some nominal smaller chunks: D1a-g, D2a-g, ... D5a-g and run a number of raidz across the drives in parallel, D1a D2a .. D5a, etc? JoeReceived on Sat Jun 09 2007 - 00:08:29 UTC
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