gkroezinga
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Hello.
From what I have read in the powerpoint presentation written by cyberjock, it should be possible to expand a 5disk raidz with a 4disk raidz.
FreeNAS, however, won't let me do it.
It refuses with the following error:
Am I doing something that is impossible?
I hope you can help,
With kind regards,
Geert
From what I have read in the powerpoint presentation written by cyberjock, it should be possible to expand a 5disk raidz with a 4disk raidz.
FreeNAS, however, won't let me do it.
It refuses with the following error:
- You are trying to add a virtual device consisting of 4 device(s) in a pool that has a virtual device consisted of 5 device(s)
- ¨More hard disks can be added to a zpool by adding another VDev.
- ¨The new VDev can use a different size hard drive and even a different number of hard drives than the old VDev. It is recommended that they have the same number of disks though.
- ¨The new VDev does not have to have the same characteristics(mirror,Z1,Z2, etc.), however it is highly recommended.
- ¨VDevs cannot be removed from a zpool after they have been added, even if you “just” added it on accident. You should be absolutely 100% sure you are doing what you want to do before adding VDevs. If you aren’t sure, test it in a VM to be sure you understand what you are doing. There is no undo!
Am I doing something that is impossible?
I hope you can help,
With kind regards,
Geert