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ZFS and "du" use binary byte multipliers (1kB = 1024 B, etc.), while
drive manufacturers use decimal conversion (1kB = 1000 B). So your 1.5TB
drives are in fact ~1.36 TiB (binary TB):

7 x 1,36 TiB = 9.52 TiB - 1,36 TiB for parity = 8.16 TiB

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Saso

On 08/06/2010 01:29 PM, Per Jorgensen wrote:
> I have 7 * 1,5TB disk in a raidz1 configuration, then the system (how i 
> understanding it) uses 1,5TB ( 1 disk ) for parity, but when i uses "df" the 
> available space in my newly created pool it says 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> bf                    8.0T   36K  8.0T   1% /bf
> 
> when I uses zpool list it says
> 
> NAME    SIZE   USED  AVAIL    CAP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
> bf     9.50T   292K  9.50T     0%  ONLINE  -
> 
> the pool is created with the following command, and compression is set to off
> 
> zpool create -f bf raidz1 c9t0d0 c9t1d0 c9t2d0 c9t3d0 c9t4d0 c9t5d0 c9t6d0
> 
> and when I do some calculation 
> 
> 7 x 1,5TB = 10,5TB - 1,5TB for parity = 9,5 TB , so to my questions 
> 
> 1. why do I only have 8TB in my bf pool ?
> 2. why do "zpool list" and "df" reports diffrents disk space avaibable
> 
> thanks
> Per Jorgensen

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