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> I could buy a new external disk, add it to a pool, have seamless storage expansion. You still can't do that with ZFS though, that's what this PR is for.
by kalleboo 3y ago
> I could buy a new external disk, add it to a pool, have seamless storage expansion.
You still can't do that with ZFS though, that's what this PR is for.
- postmodest 3y agoYou can add devices as vdevs to a pool, though. You can't add disks to a vdev. (IIRC) It's no different to LVM in that aspect.
- Lex-2008 3y agoIIRC, the pool is effectively RAID0 over vdevs: if any single vdev dies - whole pool dies. Do i remember this correctly? So if over the years I got, say, five disks of varying quality - I shouldn't add them to a pool as five individual vdevs :)
- calcifer 3y ago> if any single vdev dies - whole pool dies. Do i remember this correctly? Yes, that's why you don't have single-disk vdevs.
- kalleboo 3y agoCorrect. I lied when I said you can't add single disks, I meant you shouldn't add single disks. It's not like e.g. Synology where you can add a single disk and it will expand your underlying RAID5/6 arrays
- yencabulator 3y agoBeware using ZFS with external disks: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/3461 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/3461