Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 13.04.12 19:22, schrieb Tim Cook: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Freddie Cash > wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Tim Cook mailto:t...@cook.ms>> wrote: > You will however have an issue replacing them if one should fail. You need > to have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Tim Cook wrote: > > You will however have an issue replacing them if one should fail. You > need > > to have the same block count to replace a device, which is why I asked > for a > > "right-sizing" years a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
Yes this Is another thing im weary of... I should have slightly under provisioned at the start or mixed manufacturers... Now i may have to replace 2tb fails with 2.5 for the sake of a block Sent from my iPhone On 13 Apr 2012, at 17:30, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Tim Cook wrote: > You will however have an issue replacing them if one should fail.  You need > to have the same block count to replace a device, which is why I asked for a > "right-sizing" years ago.  Deaf ears :/ I thought ZFSv20-something added a "if the blockc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Edward Ned Harvey < opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michael Armstrong > > > > Is there a way to quickly ascertain if my seagate/h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michael Armstrong > > Is there a way to quickly ascertain if my seagate/hitachi drives are as large as > the 2.0tb samsungs? I'd like to avoid the situation of replacing all drives and > then n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Michael Armstrong writes: > Is there a way to quickly ascertain if my seagate/hitachi drives are as > large as the 2.0tb samsungs? I'd like to avoid the situation of replacing > all drives and then not being able to grow the pool... Hitachi prints the block count of the drives on the physical pro

[zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi Guys,I currently have a 18 drive system built from 13x 2.0tb Samsung's and 5x WD 1tb's... I'm about to swap out all of my 1tb drives with 2tb ones to grow the pool a bit... My question is...The replacement 2tb drives are from various manufacturers (seagate/hitachi/samsung) and I know from previo