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I wondering about problem with adding new device to ZFS RAIDZ.

I'm thinking about it only theoretically: After destroying ZFS pool with only RAIDZ in it. The data should be still there on the disks.

Is there a way to create new RAIDZ with old disks? If so, it should be almost the same way to add a new extra hard drive (or more) to the new RAIDZ. Only extra thing in this case is recalculate all parity. Am I wrong?

So for now the main question is:

Is there some way to create new RAIDZ with old disks (from old RAIDZ) without adding new extra disk?

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See this question. – James O'Gorman Dec 6 '11 at 12:11
This question about adding new HDD to raidz, it is not my main question. – BBK Dec 7 '11 at 10:24
Are you saying you want to re-create a RAIDZ that has been destroyed and recover its data? This isn't possible and is what backups are for. – James O'Gorman Dec 7 '11 at 12:02
The main idea not about recovering the data as you can read above. But yes it is almoust the same question: Is it possible to re-create a RAIDZ that has been destroyed? – BBK Dec 8 '11 at 10:09
No, it's not possible. – ewwhite Dec 8 '11 at 10:11
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This is not posible. You cannot expand an existing RAIDZ pool by adding disks.

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You answered to the second question but not to the main one. – BBK Dec 7 '11 at 10:22
I don't understand what you're asking. In any case, you can't modify any RAIDZ setup. I'm not sure what you mean by "extra disk". – ewwhite Dec 7 '11 at 11:58
"extra disk" is a new one, for example never used before. – BBK Dec 8 '11 at 10:03

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