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

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I have always given ZFS the entire disk, if you buy the same model
replacement, you should be good. And in a few years time, I would think you
would buy a bigger drive anyways.

shawn

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:44 AM Scott Newell <newell+rescue at n5tnl.com>
wrote:

> 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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