On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Adam Leventhal <a...@eng.sun.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, I must have missed your point. I thought that you were saying that > HDS, NetApp, and EMC had a different model. Were you merely saying that the > software in those vendors' products operates differently than ZFS? > Gosh, was the point that hard to get? Let me state it a fourth time: They all short stroke the disks to avoid the CF that results in all drives not adhering to a strict sizing standard. > > > Are you telling me zfs is deficient to the point it can't handle basic > > right-sizing like a 15$ sata raid adapter? > > How do there $15 sata raid adapters solve the problem? The more details you > could provide the better obviously. > They short stroke the disk so that when you buy a new 500GB drive that isn't the exact same number of blocks you aren't screwed. It's a design choice to be both sane, and to make the end-users life easier. You know, sort of like you not letting people choose their raid layout... --Tim
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