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

[Phil Stracchino]

On 5/2/21 2:06 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le dim. 2 mai 2021 C  19:20, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> a C)crit
> :
>> I hear the consistency of units argument.  But the storage industry
>> didn't switch to using strict SI units (...)
> 
> Genuine question: did they actually switch? Or did they almost always
> used powers of ten?

They switched.  In 1989 if I remember correctly, and I'm pretty sure I
do.  They'd always used multiples of 2^10 the same as for RAM, and then
one day they relabelled everything in powers of 10^3.  Same disk, bigger
number.  And touted it as new larger capacity disks.  Then when you read
the fine print, you found it was because they were using smaller units.


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