On Mon, Feb 2 at 5:05, Orvar Korvar wrote: > Ok. Just to confirm: A modern disk has already some spare capacity > which is not normally utilized by ZFS, UFS, etc. If the spare > capacity is finished, then the disc should be replaced.
Actually, the device has spare sectors beyond the reported LBA capacity. These are transparently exchanged with sectors within the LBA capacity when those sectors develop permanent errors. Filesystems often leave reserve areas, but that is unrelated. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
