In 2007 I bought 6 WD1600JS 160GB sata disks and used 4 to create a raidz storage pool and then shelved the other two for spares. One of the disks failed last night so I shut down the server and replaced it with a spare. When I tried to zpool replace the disk I get:
zpool replace tank c10t0d0 cannot replace c10t0d0 with c10t0d0: device is too small The 4 original disk partition tables look like this: Current partition table (original): Total disk sectors available: 312560317 + 16384 (reserved sectors) Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector 0 usr wm 34 149.04GB 312560350 1 unassigned wm 0 0 0 2 unassigned wm 0 0 0 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0 6 unassigned wm 0 0 0 8 reserved wm 312560351 8.00MB 312576734 Spare disk partition table looks like this: Current partition table (original): Total disk sectors available: 312483549 + 16384 (reserved sectors) Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector 0 usr wm 34 149.00GB 312483582 1 unassigned wm 0 0 0 2 unassigned wm 0 0 0 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0 6 unassigned wm 0 0 0 8 reserved wm 312483583 8.00MB 312499966 So it seems that two of the disks are slightly different models and are about 40mb smaller then the original disks. I know I can just add a larger disk but I would rather user the hardware I have if possible. 1) Is there anyway to replace the failed disk with one of the spares? 2) Can I recreate the zpool using 3 of the original disks and one of the slightly smaller spares? Will zpool/zfs adjust its size to the smaller disk? 3) If #2 is possible would I still be able to use the last still shelved disk as a spare? If #2 is possible I would probably recreate the zpool as raidz2 instead of the current raidz1. Any info/comments would be greatly appreciated. Robert -- Robert Hartzell b...@rwhartzell.net RwHartzell.Net, Inc. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
