On August 10, 2007 12:34:23 PM +0300 Tuomas Leikola 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > What I'm looking for is a disk full error if ditto cannot be written
>> > to different disks. This would guarantee that a mirror is written on a
>> > separate disk - and the entire filesystem can be salvaged from a full
>> > disk failure.
>>
>> We call that a "mirror" :-)
>>
>
> Mirror and raidz suffer from the classic blockdevice abstraction
> problem in that they need disks of equal size.

Not that I'm aware of.  Mirror and raid-z will simply use the smallest
size of your available disks.

-frank
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