Thanks for the comprehensive replies! I'll need some baby speak on this one though:
> The recommended use of whole disks is for drives with volatile write caches > where ZFS will enable the cache if it owns the whole disk. There may be an > RFE lurking here, but it might be tricky to correctly implement to protect > against future data corruptions by non-ZFS use. I don't know what you mean by "drives with volatile write caches", but I'm dealing with commodity SATA2 drives from WD/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung. This disk replacement thing is a pretty common use case, so I think it would be smart to sort it out while someone cares, and then stick the authoritative answer into the zfs wiki. This is what I can contribute without knowing the answer: The best way to incorporate abnormal disk size variance tolerance into a raidz array is BLANK, and it has these BLANK side effects. Now you guys fill in the BLANKs :P This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
