On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:51, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > I appreciate that in these times of financial hardship that you can > not afford a 750GB drive to replace the oversized 500GB drive. Sorry > to hear about your situation. That's easy to say, but what if there were no larger alternative? Suppose I have a pool composed of those 1.5TB Seagate disks, and Hitachi puts out some of the "same" capacity that are actually slightly smaller. A drive fails in my array, I buy a Hitachi disk to replace it, and it doesn't work. If I can't get a large enough drive to replace the missing disk with, it'd be a shame to have to destroy and recreate the pool on smaller media.
Perhaps this is yet another problem that can be solved with BP rewrite. If "zpool replace" detects that a disk is slightly smaller but not so small that it can't hold all the data, warn the user first but then allow them to replace the disk anyways. Will _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
