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

[George Wilson]

James Carlson wrote:
> 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?
>   
Yes, it would scan all devices to see what could be expanded.
>   
>> 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.
>   

Thanks,
George