How to Add One Disk to an Existing RAIDZ Zpool

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I have an OpenSolaris server with a zpool backupz comprised of four SCSI drives:

-bash-3.2# zpool status backupz
  pool: backupz
 state: ONLINE
 scrub: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        backupz     ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t0d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

I want to add a fifth drive… but zpool add backupz raidz c7t4d0 isn't working…

-bash-3.2# zpool add backupz raidz c7t4d0
invalid vdev specification: raidz requires at least 2 devices

Can I not have a raidz config with 5 devices? Do I have to add two devices at once? or am I doing something incorrect altogether here?

Best Answer

You can't expand an existing raidz vdev, you have to blow it away and create it again with the new drive(s). See the other answer for better details.

Side note: Someone actually worked out that it's technically possibly to add drives to a raidz, but the functionality hasn't been implemented. The same is true of removing a disk.

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