[mythtv-users] ZFS anyone? Need to move off ZFS Myth machine and not sure what to do..

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 13:27:15 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:37, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
....
> You can't remove a disk loosing failure resilience, and it stops there. You
> can't shrink the disks to respan on less disks.

Correct.  To shrink disks requires the "block pointer rewrite" capability(*).
But AFAIK any coding work was never released (before the acquisition
changed everything regarding open source projects).

Gary

(*) block pointer rewrite would also enable on-the-fly defrag and
changes to various attributes like compression and encryption
in addition to adding/deleting disks.


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