Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:48:02 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: dan.naumov@gmail.com, fjwcash@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you? Message-ID: <E1MG6vC-000K7w-Ac@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee00906142331g1c6ccbb1w979d967b4c12fea0@mail.gmail.com>
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> The new 2tb disk you buy can very often be actually a few sectors > smaller then the disk you are trying to replace, this in turn will > lead to zfs not accepting the new disk as a replacement, because it's > smaller (no matter how small). Heh - you are in for a pleasent surprise my friend! ;-) If you actually try this in practice you will find ZFS *does* accept a smaller drive as a replacement. Preseumably to cope with the natural variability in sector size that you describe. Surprised me too the first time I saw it... -pete.
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