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by lathiat 2431 days ago
They finally added this to Oracle Solaris ('closed source' zfs) in 11.4 (http://blog.moellenkamp.org/archives/50-How-to-remove-a-top-...)

And there is work on it for OpenZFS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njt82e_3qVo

for zfsonlinux As far as I understand you can currently add and remove striped/mirror devices, but you cannot remove raid-z vdevs (ref: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/9129) - so there is definitely work left to be done in this area.

as an aside mdadm has surprisingly fantastic features in this area and can reshape pretty much any array type to any other. i was impressed by that.