MC wrote: >> This is a problem for replacement, not creation. > > You're talking about solving the problem in the future? I'm talking about > working around the problem today. :) This isn't a fluffy dream problem. I > ran into this last month when an RMA'd drive wouldn't fit back into a RAID5 > array. RAIDZ is subject to the exact same problem, so I want to find the > solution before making a RAIDZ array. > >> The authoritative answer is in the man page for zpool. > > You quoted the exact same line that I quoted in my original post. That isn't > a solution. That is a constraint which causes the problem and which the > solution must work around. > > The two solutions listed here are slicing and hacking the "whole disk" label > to be smaller than the whole disk. There is no consensus here on what > solution, if any, should be used. I would like there to be, so I'll leave > the original question open.
slicing seems simple enough. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
