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Subject: Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?
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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.

I just tried it again to make sure I wasn't imagining things - you
can give it a shot yourself using mdconfig to create some drives. It
will let me drop in a replacement up to about 64k smaller than the original
with no problems. Below that and it refuses saying the drive is too
small.

-pete.