Hi<br><br>On Friday, 14 October 2011, Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>> On 11-10-13 04:30 PM, Mark wrote:<br><br>> Surely one of ZFS' fancy-pants features is that it lets you remove a<br>
> drive from a filesystem without a loss of data -- assuming there is at<br>> least as much space free as the size of that disk you want to remove.<br>><br>> If you can remove a drive (again, assuming you have the space free to do<br>
> it) you remove it (if not, this is where you will need the one new 2TB<br>> drive), move it to your myth box, create an ext4 filesystem on it, put<br>> it into a storage group and then move 2TB of recording off of ZFS on<br>
> that disk.<br>><br>> Doing so will free up another 2TB of disk on your ZFS filesystem<br>> allowing you to remove a second drive. Move it to your myth box, put<br>> ext4 on it and move another 2TB from your ZFS filesystem. Rinse and<br>
> repeat until you have all of your drives independent and in a storage<br>> group. If you had to buy a new 2TB drive to accomplish it, you probably<br>> needed it anyway. :-)<br>><br><br>What a weird logic....<br>
<br>This is certainly not going to work the disks are raid-z... And they probably are...<br><br>You can't remove a disk loosing failure resilience, and it stops there. You can't shrink the disks to respan on less disks.<br>
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