On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:25 PM, David Michael Bryson wrote:
I can at least say that I have done things such as this numerous
times without any problems. Volume performance does indeed suffer,
especially since you likely need to set the allocation strategy to
fill, in order to make good use of the additional storage.
However, for simply having a large pit to dump data into, it has
worked great. Our main archive volume has gone through several
expansions of random sizes to accommodate more data and is still
working fine after several years of use.
The main trap I have found is that it is easy to get into the
mindset that you can forever expand the volume as need arises. In
order to phase out old hardware it becomes quite a challenge (in
terms of budget, downtime, etc.). The poor performance will make
copying the data off onto new hardware even more annoying, as well.
Cheers,
David
On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Elijah Buck wrote:
I have enough 500GB drives to fill the unoccupied side of the first
xserve raid. I understand I can't use this new LUN to expand the
existing storage pool because the Luns are different sizes.
However, I could create a new storage pool and conisting of this
single LUN, and add that storage pool to the existing volume,
correct? I have no affinities set up and am not particularly
concerned about performance (no video editing).
Good to know. Thanks for weighing in.
Elijah
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