I'm not sure if this actually is/will be a problem, so I don't know if this question makes sense, but:
I have a pool with two two-disk mirror vdevs, using 10TB disks. This pool is now at 80% capacity, so I want to add another mirror vdev (with 12TB disks) to the pool to expand it. (I'd previously considered, and asked here about, converting the pool into a single RAIDZ2 vdev, but I'm not going to do that now.)
What are the repercussions of this in terms of the overall pool stability? That...
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I have a pool with two two-disk mirror vdevs, using 10TB disks. This pool is now at 80% capacity, so I want to add another mirror vdev (with 12TB disks) to the pool to expand it. (I'd previously considered, and asked here about, converting the pool into a single RAIDZ2 vdev, but I'm not going to do that now.)
What are the repercussions of this in terms of the overall pool stability? That...
Read more