Attaching and Detaching Devices in a Storage Pool
In addition to the zpool add command, you can use the zpool attach command to add a new device to an existing mirrored or nonmirrored device.
If you are attaching a disk to create a mirrored root pool, see How to Create a Mirrored Root Pool (Post Installation).
If you are replacing a disk in a ZFS root pool, see How to Replace a Disk in the ZFS Root Pool.
Example 4–5 Converting a Two-Way Mirrored Storage Pool to a Three-way Mirrored Storage Pool
In this example, zeepool is an existing two-way mirror that is converted to a three-way mirror by attaching c2t1d0, the new device, to the existing device, c1t1d0.
# zpool status zeepool
pool: zeepool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zeepool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
# zpool attach zeepool c1t1d0 c2t1d0
# zpool status zeepool
pool: zeepool
state: ONLINE
scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Fri Jan 8 12:59:20 2010
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zeepool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 592K resilvered
errors: No known data errors
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If the existing device is part of a three-way mirror, attaching the new device creates a four-way mirror, and so on. Whatever the case, the new device begins to resilver immediately.
Example 4–6 Converting a Nonredundant ZFS Storage Pool to a Mirrored ZFS Storage Pool
In addition, you can convert a nonredundant storage pool to a redundant storage pool by using the zpool attach command. For example:
# zpool create tank c0t1d0
# zpool status tank
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
# zpool attach tank c0t1d0 c1t1d0
# zpool status tank
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Fri Jan 8 14:28:23 2010
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 73.5K resilvered
errors: No known data errors
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You can use the zpool detach command to detach a device from a mirrored storage pool. For example:
# zpool detach zeepool c2t1d0 |
However, this operation fails if no other valid replicas of the data exist. For example:
# zpool detach newpool c1t2d0 cannot detach c1t2d0: only applicable to mirror and replacing vdevs |
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