[OpenIndiana-discuss] Will mixing 4K drives and non 4K drives in a storage pool work properly?

2015-03-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
I have a system with a bunch of 1.5TB drives running oi_151a5. One of the drives is failing and needs replacement. The problem is that new 1.5TB drives are no longer available on the market. Now, all drives are non-4K sector drives. The largest non-4K drives available are the 1TB drives which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Will mixing 4K drives and non 4K drives in a storage pool work properly?

2015-03-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
This has been widely discussed. You will have to rebuild the pool with ashift=12. So far as I know there is no way to do that on an existing pool. The general incantation is to create a new pool big enough to hold your data, copy the data to the new pool, destroy the old pool and then add the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Will mixing 4K drives and non 4K drives in a storage pool work properly?

2015-03-27 Thread Mark Walmsley
http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks I had the same problem I could never get the sd.conf stuff to work out right for recognizing my 1.5tb seagates as 4k drives so what I did is backed up my entire pool. Destroyed my pool and remade the pool with my new 2gb drive