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On 2011-Sep-19 16:30:45 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> w=
rote:
>Also, need some clarification here: when you say "the last drive in the
>vdev" do you effectively mean "once all the drives in the vdev are of
>the same size", or do you quite literally mean "the last device/disk
>shown in the vdev"?

An easy way of looking at it is that the vdev (and hence pool) will
autoexpand to match the smallest device in the vdev when any device is
replaced.

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Peter Jeremy

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