<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><blockquote type="cite"><div>Honestly, though, we shouldn't have to watch a podcast, or study vdev <br></div><div>calculators to figure out how to add drives effectively. We should be <br></div><div>able to say "Here's two new drives" and have the existing raid-z expand <br></div><div>to use them. We have this with mdadm, we have this with lvm, we have <br></div><div>this with btrfs. It should be in zfs.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. This is why I just gave up and set up a single mirror vdev in a single zpool.<br></div><div>ZFS could be so much easier to use for the home user. The new RAIDz expansion feature is a step in the right direction, but getting everything we want is probably many years out.<br></div></body></html>