Tim wrote:
> 
>     Are you 100% sure it has the exact same number of sectors?  While more
>     recently, most vendors have settled on the IDEMA calculation for
>     number of available sectors, some drives sold into retail and/or some
>     models may not follow this, leaving you with a slightly different
>     number.
> 
>     The "IDEMA" size for a 500GB disk is 976,773,168 sectors.
> 
>     That Samsung drive would be about 13,000 sectors short, if your other
>     disks are IDEMA sized.
> 
>     FYI, the formula is: sectors = 97696368 + (1953504 * ((Size in GB) -
>     50))
> 
> 
> 
>  
> So you're saying zfs does absolutely no right-sizing?  That sounds like 
> a bad idea all around...

ZFS only looks at available sectors.
  -- richard
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