Re: mirror vdevs with different sizes

From: John Doherty <bsdlists_at_jld3.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:32:09 UTC
Thanks very much for your response.

On Fri 2022-03-25 10:09 AM MDT -0600, <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> There's nothing wrong with doing that.  The performance won't be
> perfectly balanced, because the new disks will have a lower ratio of
> IOPS/TB.  But that's fine.  Go ahead.
> -Alan
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:17 AM John Doherty <bsdlists@jld3.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello, I have an existing zpool with 12 mirrors of 8 TB disks. It is
>> currently about 60% full and we expect to fill the remaining space
>> fairly quickly.
>>
>> I would like to expand it, preferably using 12 mirrors of 16 TB disks.
>> Any reason I shouldn't do this?