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Old 4th December 2009
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Originally Posted by gkontos View Post
With ZFS you can expand the volumes very easy. There is a nice article here. In your case though you would have to create a ZFS root install. This is something that I'm currently "playing around" in vmware.

George
Thanks for the link! A nice howto

It's really so easy to extend the volumes, wow!

I'm also thinking about the following situation, though.. Will ZFS allow me to use slices instead of whole disks - that way I would be able to mirror disks that are not identical.

I have two disks - one 250g and one 750g. So instead of getting identical disks I slice the second one into two - one 250g and one 500g slices. The first slice of the bigger one is used to mirror the first disk, and rest 500g are used for some data that is not that important.

I was able to do this using gmirror in single-user mode, but don't know if ZFS would allow me to do this? Have you tried this?

Thanks!
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