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From: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE user list <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>,
	Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] zfs raidz2 expansion
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:05:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fa284b2-11b6-4136-82df-cc81a1976213@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24ixgm5uj.wl-randy@psg.com>

You can always add a new  VDEV to the pool (man zpool-add). Expanding a 
raidz2 VDEV itself is only possible with ZFS 2.3 AFAIU and we do not 
ship that yet [0].

But if this is for VM storage, you might want to consider a ZFS pool of 
multiple mirrored VDEVs. [1] has more details.

While performance might not be much of an issue anymore with recent 
NVMEs that provide a ton of IOPS, the additional space usage might still 
be something to think about in a raidz pool used for VMs (ZVOL).


[0] 
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-8-4-released.164821/#post-762367
[1] 
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#sysadmin_zfs_raid_considerations

On  2025-05-20  03:24, Randy Bush wrote:
> running 8.4.1 with images on 4x2tb raidz2 ssds (zfs-2.2.7-pve2).  we
> want to double the space.  the net of a million lies says all sorts of
> things about expanding raidz2.  as we do full replication, we could just
> create a new pool for replocation and call it a day.  but i am curious
> if we can just expand the current pool.  my reading says doubtful, but
> am not deeply clued.
> 
> randy
> 
> ---
> 
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/raidz-expansion.135413/
> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15022
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-20  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-20  1:24 Randy Bush
2025-05-20  7:05 ` Aaron Lauterer [this message]
2025-05-20 17:21   ` Randy Bush
2025-05-22 13:23     ` Aaron Lauterer
2025-05-22 21:03       ` Randy Bush
2025-05-23  8:50         ` Aaron Lauterer
2025-05-23 18:17           ` Randy Bush
2025-05-26  7:38             ` Aaron Lauterer

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