mirror_zfs/man/man8/zpool-attach.8
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RAID-Z expansion feature
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
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.Dd June 28, 2023
.Dt ZPOOL-ATTACH 8
.Os
.
.Sh NAME
.Nm zpool-attach
.Nd attach new device to existing ZFS vdev
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm zpool
.Cm attach
.Op Fl fsw
.Oo Fl o Ar property Ns = Ns Ar value Oc
.Ar pool device new_device
.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Attaches
.Ar new_device
to the existing
.Ar device .
The behavior differs depending on if the existing
.Ar device
is a RAID-Z device, or a mirror/plain device.
.Pp
If the existing device is a mirror or plain device
.Pq e.g. specified as Qo Li sda Qc or Qq Li mirror-7 ,
the new device will be mirrored with the existing device, a resilver will be
initiated, and the new device will contribute to additional redundancy once the
resilver completes.
If
.Ar device
is not currently part of a mirrored configuration,
.Ar device
automatically transforms into a two-way mirror of
.Ar device
and
.Ar new_device .
If
.Ar device
is part of a two-way mirror, attaching
.Ar new_device
creates a three-way mirror, and so on.
In either case,
.Ar new_device
begins to resilver immediately and any running scrub is cancelled.
.Pp
If the existing device is a RAID-Z device
.Pq e.g. specified as Qq Ar raidz2-0 ,
the new device will become part of that RAID-Z group.
A "raidz expansion" will be initiated, and once the expansion completes,
the new device will contribute additional space to the RAID-Z group.
The expansion entails reading all allocated space from existing disks in the
RAID-Z group, and rewriting it to the new disks in the RAID-Z group (including
the newly added
.Ar device ) .
Its progress can be monitored with
.Nm zpool Cm status .
.Pp
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 RAID-Z vdev is restored (e.g. by replacing the failed disk
and waiting for reconstruction to complete).
Expansion does not change the number of failures that can be tolerated
without data loss (e.g. a RAID-Z2 is still a RAID-Z2 even after expansion).
A RAID-Z vdev can be expanded multiple times.
.Pp
After the expansion completes, old blocks retain their old data-to-parity
ratio
.Pq e.g. 5-wide RAID-Z2 has 3 data and 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
RAID-Z2 which has been expanded once to 6-wide, has 4 data and 2 parity).
However, the vdev's assumed parity ratio does not change, so slightly less
space than is expected may be reported for newly-written blocks, according to
.Nm zfs Cm list ,
.Nm df ,
.Nm ls Fl s ,
and similar tools.
.Pp
A pool-wide scrub is initiated at the end of the expansion in order to verify
the checksums of all blocks which have been copied during the expansion.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl f
Forces use of
.Ar new_device ,
even if it appears to be in use.
Not all devices can be overridden in this manner.
.It Fl o Ar property Ns = Ns Ar value
Sets the given pool properties.
See the
.Xr zpoolprops 7
manual page for a list of valid properties that can be set.
The only property supported at the moment is
.Sy ashift .
.It Fl s
When attaching to a mirror or plain device, the
.Ar new_device
is reconstructed sequentially to restore redundancy as quickly as possible.
Checksums are not verified during sequential reconstruction so a scrub is
started when the resilver completes.
.It Fl w
Waits until
.Ar new_device
has finished resilvering or expanding before returning.
.El
.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr zpool-add 8 ,
.Xr zpool-detach 8 ,
.Xr zpool-import 8 ,
.Xr zpool-initialize 8 ,
.Xr zpool-online 8 ,
.Xr zpool-replace 8 ,
.Xr zpool-resilver 8