Proxmox 9 was released, based on Debian 13 (Trixie), with some interesting new features.
Here are the highlights: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_9.0
Upgrade from 8 to 9 readme: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9
Known issues & breaking changes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#9.0-known-issues
Yes it does. ZFS does a full resilver after the addition. Jim Salter’s write ups are from 4 years ago. Shit changes.
Edit: and even if it didn’t… It’s trivial to write a script that rewrites all the data to move it into the new structure. To say there’s no valid cases when even in 2021 there was an answer to the problem is a bit crazy.
Whoah, I see this has indeed changed. Thanks.
Wait till you hear about zfs anyraid. An upcoming feature to make zfs more flexible with mixed sized drives.