Expand pool while resilvering

[ethanf]

Can you add a vdev to expand a pool while resilvering? I suspect you can, but is it generally best to wait until the resilvering is complete?

 

[Spearfoot]

Can you add a vdev to expand a pool while resilvering? I suspect you can, but is it generally best to wait until the resilvering is complete?

I would wait until resilvering finishes before expanding the pool.

 

[Constantin]

Assuming you’re dealing with CMR disks, the resilver shouldn’t take too long. I’d do one thing at a time to keep it simple.

 

[ethanf]

Yeah they're CMR. I'll wait for it. It's a new server and starting with a new pool. I'm anxious to get my drives all added to it and get the data back onto it from externals. One of the new drives I recently bought started having errors already so went ahead and replaced it.

 

[Constantin]

Infant deaths are a common issue with drives. Some of the drives that reported smart errors to me were simply suffering from cabling issues, others were really sick.

 

[ethanf]

Infant deaths are a common issue with drives. Some of the drives that reported smart errors to me were simply suffering from cabling issues, others were really sick.

This one really is a dud. I decided to try some "new old stock" drives and the majority of the were RMA'd pretty quickly. This was one of the remaining few that survived a couple weeks. Lesson learned on that one--only buy "new new stock" ;).

 

[Constantin]

A lot of that stuff is so called refurbished stock, which frequently entails little more than wiping the SMART flash on returned drives.

Drives are not “repairable” on a economical basis by NA-based independents. The closest we get to that is folk like drive-savers (where the aim is data recovery not drive repair!)

Only OEMs have even a hope of doing in house repairs on a economical basis by shipping the broken infant-death stock back to the Far East to facilities where the parts, expertise, exist. In NA, they likely do little more than replace fried external PCB assemblies, if that.