This feature allows disks to be added one at a time to a RAID-Z group,
expanding its capacity incrementally. This feature is especially useful
for small pools (typically with only one RAID-Z group), where there
isn't sufficient hardware to add capacity by adding a whole new RAID-Z
group (typically doubling the number of disks).
== Initiating expansion ==
A new device (disk) can be attached to an existing RAIDZ vdev, by
running `zpool attach POOL raidzP-N NEW_DEVICE`, e.g. `zpool attach tank
raidz2-0 sda`. The new device will become part of the RAIDZ group. A
"raidz expansion" will be initiated, and the new device will contribute
additional space to the RAIDZ group once the expansion completes.
The `feature@raidz_expansion` on-disk feature flag must be `enabled` to
initiate an expansion, and it remains `active` for the life of the pool.
In other words, pools with expanded RAIDZ vdevs can not be imported by
older releases of the ZFS software.
== During expansion ==
The expansion entails reading all allocated space from existing disks in
the RAIDZ group, and rewriting it to the new disks in the RAIDZ group
(including the newly added device).
The expansion progress can be monitored with `zpool status`.
Data redundancy is maintained during (and after) the expansion. If a
disk fails while the expansion is in progress, the expansion pauses
until the health of the RAIDZ vdev is restored (e.g. by replacing the
failed disk and waiting for reconstruction to complete).
The pool remains accessible during expansion. Following a reboot or
export/import, the expansion resumes where it left off.
== After expansion ==
When the expansion completes, the additional space is available for use,
and is reflected in the `available` zfs property (as seen in `zfs list`,
`df`, etc).
Expansion does not change the number of failures that can be tolerated
without data loss (e.g. a RAIDZ2 is still a RAIDZ2 even after
expansion).
A RAIDZ vdev can be expanded multiple times.
After the expansion completes, old blocks remain with their old
data-to-parity ratio (e.g. 5-wide RAIDZ2, has 3 data to 2 parity), but
distributed among the larger set of disks. New blocks will be written
with the new data-to-parity ratio (e.g. a 5-wide RAIDZ2 which has been
expanded once to 6-wide, has 4 data to 2 parity). However, the RAIDZ
vdev's "assumed parity ratio" does not change, so slightly less space
than is expected may be reported for newly-written blocks, according to
`zfs list`, `df`, `ls -s`, and similar tools.
Sponsored-by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored-by: iXsystems, Inc.
Sponsored-by: vStack
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Mark Maybee <mark.maybee@delphix.com>
Authored-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Contributions-by: Fedor Uporov <fuporov.vstack@gmail.com>
Contributions-by: Stuart Maybee <stuart.maybee@comcast.net>
Contributions-by: Thorsten Behrens <tbehrens@outlook.com>
Contributions-by: Fmstrat <nospam@nowsci.com>
Contributions-by: Don Brady <dev.fs.zfs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Brady <dev.fs.zfs@gmail.com>
Closes#15022
Use proper names (i.e. zfs-allow and zpool-add) in NAME subsections
of zfs/zpool subcommands instead of current "pretty-printed" ones as
makewhatis utilities (or some implementations of it, namely the one
from mandoc suite used in FreeBSD) look not only at the document title
but also in NAME subsection, adding zfs(8)/zpool(8) to search results
which is not correct. (Common sense and other utilities splitting
subcommands in multiple man pages, e.g. git, do the same.)
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: xtouqh <xtouqh@hotmail.com>
Closes#11086
The recommended practice for `.Os` on FreeBSD is to not specify any
arguments. The correct OS name is used automatically.
Oddly enough, on the Linux distro I tested this on (CentOS 7), the man
pager defaulted to displaying "BSD" as the OS rather than "Linux". To
accommodate this, tack " Linux" back on in an install hook on Linux.
This is much simpler than removing it for FreeBSD when vendored in the
base system.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Closes#10760
Manual trims fall into the category of long-running pool activities
which people might want to wait synchronously for. This change adds
support to 'zpool wait' for waiting for manual trim operations to
complete. It also adds a '-w' flag to 'zpool trim' which can be used to
turn 'zpool trim' into a synchronous operation.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: John Gallagher <john.gallagher@delphix.com>
Closes#10071
Moved subcommand topics into individual manpages. Reordered and
grouped the list of subcommands by topic.
Moved concepts overview to `zpoolconcepts.8` and the long list of
available pool properties to `zpoolprops.8`.
Internal cross-references copied from `zpool.8` needed to be
converted to `.Xr` external references to new subcommand manual
pages.
Move `autotrim` into lexical order, autotrim tacked onto the end
of a list. Now it is in alphabetical order.
Clarify attach/detach description. Description was too specific to
command syntax. Overview clarifies reason for attaching or detaching
a device.
Clarify replace description, don't refer to subcommand arguments.
Clarify split command description, say what split actually does and
why you'd want to do it.
Clarify description of upgrade, and simplify the zpool.8 wording of
the zpool-upgrade(8) description.
Clarify description of import, detail what zpool-import(8) actually
does.
Add appropriate SEE ALSO sections. Divided zpool subcommand manual
pages need their own SEE ALSO sections. Also modified fsck.zfs.8
to point directly to zfs-scrub.8 and zed.8.in to include a direct
reference to zfs-events.8
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Kjeld Schouten <kjeld@schouten-lebbing.nl>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ross Williams <ross@ross-williams.net>
Closes#9564
