OpenZFS Device Removal

Re:OpenZFS Device Removal by GauntletWizard on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:50PM (#8895950)

Nice, this is a feature that'll really improve ZFS's usability for me, as a home user. I'd like to be able to redo my Zpool with a different architecture (6xDisks in RaidZ2 rather than 4x in RaidZ1). Doing it online rather than as a copy would be awesome. The next best thing would be online ZVol restructuring, though.

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Re:OpenZFS Device Removal by PhantomGremlin on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:47PM (#8896253)

I don't think this will do what you want. One limitation is:

   Currently, device removal only works if all top
   level vdevs are plain disks / files. At the very
   least, we want to make device removal interact
   intelligently with mirrored disks.

I think that statement means that this feature will not work with mirrored or RaidZ* configurations.

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Re:OpenZFS Device Removal by X-Istence on Thursday January 15, 2015 @08:57PM (#8896839)

It's a start, from here on out this can only mature and other use cases can start being considered.

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Re:OpenZFS Device Removal by craigyk on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:42PM (#8897299)

yup, hopefully removal of any top-level vdev and rebalancing data in a pool.

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