Apologies if this question has been answered before, and sorry if this is in the wrong forum (I couldn''t find communities >> zfs >> discuss in the list) but I haven''t been able to find the answer despite extensive searching. I have a zpool consisting of 3 x 1TB disks. I would like to add 1 x 1TB parity disk to create a raidz from my existing zpool and this one extra disk. My aim is to add this extra disk to achieve some redundancy, but without having to destroy and recreate my existing zpool, and keep all of the data on this existing zpool - is this possible? Where my existing zpool is called "tank" and the new disk is c4t0d0, would the command be something like: zpool create newtank raidz tank c4t0d0? Many thanks, Chris -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Ian Collins
2010-Jul-23 04:45 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Existing zpool, add new disk to create raidz
On 07/23/10 04:38 PM, Chris wrote:> Apologies if this question has been answered before, and sorry if this is in the wrong forum (I couldn''t find communities>> zfs>> discuss in the list) but I haven''t been able to find the answer despite extensive searching. > > I have a zpool consisting of 3 x 1TB disks. I would like to add 1 x 1TB parity disk to create a raidz from my existing zpool and this one extra disk. My aim is to add this extra disk to achieve some redundancy, but without having to destroy and recreate my existing zpool, and keep all of the data on this existing zpool - is this possible? > >No, I''m afraid you will have to start from scratch. -- Ian.