Sorry if the question has been discussed before...did a pretty extensive search, but no luck...
Preparing to build my first raidz pool. Plan to use 4 identical drives in a 3+1 configuration. My question is -- what happens if one drive dies, and when I replace it, design has changed slightly and the drive is (very slightly) different sized. Still a 1TB or what have you, but not identical. I'm guessing if it is slightly larger, no problem, slightly smaller is trouble, but that isn't always obvious when you buy a drive. My concern is that in a year when the drive blows, XYZ brand's model 1000 will be replaced by XYZ model 1001 that formats to 1MB less (or worse, I need to replace an XYZ brand 1TB with a similar 1TB ABC brand) Is there a best practices suggestion here? Is this a real problem? Can I force format the drives very slightly less than full capacity before adding them to the pool to prevent such an issue? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
