Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:02:56 +0300 From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you? Message-ID: <cf9b1ee00906150102g6b1e3d93of25917c3e3128955@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1MG6vC-000K7w-Ac@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <cf9b1ee00906142331g1c6ccbb1w979d967b4c12fea0@mail.gmail.com> <E1MG6vC-000K7w-Ac@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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If this is true, some magic has been done to the FreeBSD port of ZFS, because according to SUN documentation is is definitely not supposed to be possible. - Dan Naumov On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Pete French<petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >> 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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