On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:17 AM, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > > > >Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every > major > >storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor > >drive in my pool whose "500g" is just slightly larger than every other mfg > >on the market? You know, the one who is no longer making their own drives > >since being purchased by seagate. I can't replace the drive anymore? > >*GREAT*. > > With a larger drive. > > Who can replace drives with smaller drives? > > What exactly does "right size" drives mean? They don't use all of the > disk? > > Casper >
"right-sizing" is when the volume manager short strokes the drive intentionally because not all vendors 500GB is the same size. Hence the OP's problem. How aggressive the short-stroke is, depends on the OEM. --Tim
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