Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

The new 2tb disk you buy can very often be actually a few sectors
smaller then the disk you are trying to replace, this in turn will
lead to zfs not accepting the new disk as a replacement, because it's
smaller (no matter how small).

Heh - you are in for a pleasent surprise my friend! ;-) If you actually
try this in practice you will find ZFS *does* accept a smaller drive as
a replacement. Preseumably to cope with the natural variability in sector
size that you describe.

Surprised me too the first time I saw it...

-pete.
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