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Re:Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or sh... by bcwu on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:17PM (#22183059)
RAID-Z expansion is in the works...

http://open-zfs.org/w/images/6/68/RAIDZ_Expansion_v2.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njt82e_3qVo

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Re:Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or sh... by louwrentius on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:36PM (#22183349)
That was announced about 2 years ago.
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Re:Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or sh... by tecleandor on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:57PM (#22185722)
There's ongoing work on this PR:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853

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Re:Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or sh... by dictionary_word on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:24PM (#22187147)
2 years in filesystem time isn't so long.
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