On 22 Nov 2010, at 04:14, Harry Putnam wrote: > McBofh <james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com> writes: > >> It's mostly the cylinder numbers that you need to watch out for. >> If you have devices with the same claimed manufacturer size but >> different geometry, I'd create a slice of the maximum size on the >> smaller disk, then create a slice with the same number of cylinders >> on the larger disk, and then mirror those two slices. > > Thanks... very helpful. I noticed though that once a disk is formatted > or put into a zpool the cyl no. is no longer given, but then the size > is shown
Once they've got EFI labels, that's the format (sic) you get IIRC. Does prtvtoc help? I thought ZFS was nowadays able to copy with mirroring "identical" disks which differed by a number of blocks. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
