Dear FreeBSD community,
I'm an all-by-myself, self-taught sysadmin for two years now, running two FreeBSD file servers. Google and a forum search didn't reveal a conclusive answer to me.
My question regards a data-only RAIDZ-2 pool running on bare/whole discs (ZFS Version 28 on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE). Drives in the pool have begun showing failures and we need to prepare for upcoming disk failures by buying replacement drives.
Can we replace the disks in question with disks of another type and/or vendor, given that they have the same capacity (2TB in current setup) as their predecessors?
Bonus Question: Would this also be possible on a root pool residing on a slice (besides the boot-fs and swap partition)?
Thanks for reading and answering.
I'm an all-by-myself, self-taught sysadmin for two years now, running two FreeBSD file servers. Google and a forum search didn't reveal a conclusive answer to me.
My question regards a data-only RAIDZ-2 pool running on bare/whole discs (ZFS Version 28 on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE). Drives in the pool have begun showing failures and we need to prepare for upcoming disk failures by buying replacement drives.
Can we replace the disks in question with disks of another type and/or vendor, given that they have the same capacity (2TB in current setup) as their predecessors?
Bonus Question: Would this also be possible on a root pool residing on a slice (besides the boot-fs and swap partition)?
Thanks for reading and answering.