zpool autoexpand property [PSARC/2008/353 Self Review]

[James Carlson]

George Wilson writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > Shouldn't there be a command like "zpool grow <pool>"?
> >
> >   
> You can enable the 'autoexpand' property to do this but it does not give 
> you the fine-grained control that mentioned above.

That would presumably cause _all_ of the mirrors within a pool to
expand where possible, right?

> We did talk about 
> having a new 'zpool online' option to expand a given vdev. This should 
> be easy to do.

That'd do it for me.  The alternative, I think, would be to have a new
"zpool attach <pool> <device>" (i.e., without <new-device>) variant.
That would be more similar in management to the existing SVM command,
but perhaps that sort of alignment is not a sufficient reason to do it
that way.

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