I'm seeing a lot of conflicting information on if this is possible, so this is just a hypothetical with real world examples.
That is my current pool status. Ignore the upgrade note unless I need that to add things (which is likely).
I have these two drives not in use:
I'm trying to find a proper order of operations to add those two 6TB disks to the current Oceania RAIDz2-0 pool. I'd prefer to build for more space, but mirroring would be cool too (however, I only have two extra disks, so doubt it).
I'm curious. What would you do with these two disks?
pool: Oceania
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
scan: resilvered 3.20T in 1 days 02:42:41 with 0 errors on Mon Apr 21 16:15:28 2025
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
Oceania ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
scsi-35000c500625743c3 ONLINE 0 0 0
wwn-0x5000c5009927d287 ONLINE 0 0 0
scsi-35000c50083a97dcb ONLINE 0 0 0
wwn-0x5000c5008645f01b ONLINE 0 0 0
scsi-35000c50085b6864b ONLINE 0 0 0
scsi-35000c50062570d77 ONLINE 0 0 0
That is my current pool status. Ignore the upgrade note unless I need that to add things (which is likely).
I have these two drives not in use:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 22 10:51 wwn-0x5000c50086433293 -> ../../sdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 22 10:49 wwn-0x50014ee2b7ca826a -> ../../sdj
I'm trying to find a proper order of operations to add those two 6TB disks to the current Oceania RAIDz2-0 pool. I'd prefer to build for more space, but mirroring would be cool too (however, I only have two extra disks, so doubt it).
I'm curious. What would you do with these two disks?