AF (4096 byte sector) drives: Can you mix/match in a ZFS pool?

Johannes Totz jtotz at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Oct 12 22:41:57 UTC 2011


On 12/10/2011 16:11, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> I have a root on ZFS box with 6 drives, all 400G (except one 500G) in a
> pool.
> 
> I want to upgrade to 2T or 3T drives, but was wondering if you can
> mix/match while doing the drive by drive
> replacement.
> 
> This is on 9.0-BETA3 if that matters.

Not sure if this applies to you...
I tried to add a 4k-gnop'd drive to an existing 512-byte-sector pool.
And zpool tool complained about alignment mismatch.
This was on a recent 8-stable. It didn't work.




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