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<petefre...@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. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
