[rescue] expanding a ZFS pool: leave slack space?

Scott Newell newell+rescue at n5tnl.com
Fri Apr 30 13:44:36 CDT 2021


At 01:01 PM 4/30/2021, Joshua Oakes wrote:
>I feel like you should be able to just delegate the whole drive to the
>pool. Add it as a third disk in the mirror if you have the physical space.

Thanks, but maybe I wasn't clear. I'm not worried about expanding the 
mirror. My concern is that years from now, when one of these 4TB 
drives goes bad, I'll buy a new drive, stick it in, and learn it has 
1375 fewer sectors than the bad drive.

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newell  N5TNL


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