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ZFS raidz expansion feature finally merged!

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ZFS raidz expansion feature finally merged!

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raidz expansion feature by don-brady · Pull Request #15022 · openzfs/zfs

Motivation and Context This feature allows disks to be added one at a time to a RAID-Z group, expanding its capacity incrementally. This feature is especially useful for small pools (typically with...

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If I have two storage pools in RAID5 (each 4x20TB), will this allow me to combine them into RAID6 (8x20TB)?

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