ZFS auto expand mirror

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at acm.org
Tue Sep 20 11:39:39 UTC 2011


On 2011-Sep-19 16:30:45 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
>Also, need some clarification here: when you say "the last drive in the
>vdev" do you effectively mean "once all the drives in the vdev are of
>the same size", or do you quite literally mean "the last device/disk
>shown in the vdev"?

An easy way of looking at it is that the vdev (and hence pool) will
autoexpand to match the smallest device in the vdev when any device is
replaced.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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