ScottNZ
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- May 11, 2012
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Hi All,
Two questions:
1. Is it possible to add extra disks to a zpool thus increasing its size?
2. Are "spare" disks utilised automatically by ZFS?
From what I've read, I think the answer to #1 will be 'no', but I've got two extra disks I'd like to put to use somehow. My FreeNAS 8 setup is a RAIDZ1 volume on four 500GB disks, and a fifth disk marked as "spare". I've got an additional 500GB disk that I would like to add to the zpool if it's possible. Is there any way to increase the size of the zpool with additional disks (other than replacing each 500GB drive with something larger)?
Cheers,
Scott
Two questions:
1. Is it possible to add extra disks to a zpool thus increasing its size?
2. Are "spare" disks utilised automatically by ZFS?
From what I've read, I think the answer to #1 will be 'no', but I've got two extra disks I'd like to put to use somehow. My FreeNAS 8 setup is a RAIDZ1 volume on four 500GB disks, and a fifth disk marked as "spare". I've got an additional 500GB disk that I would like to add to the zpool if it's possible. Is there any way to increase the size of the zpool with additional disks (other than replacing each 500GB drive with something larger)?
Cheers,
Scott