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Zfs Mirror Different Size Disks. Zfs on 2 differently sized drives. I have two different sized disks that i want to mirror in zfs. I'd like to migrate to ubuntu and zfs, but not quite sure what is possible with zfs. Should you want to maximize size and do not care that much about performance or best practices, you can partition all the drives. Zfs does prefer to use the raw drive so ideally. I'd like to buy 2x 6tb drives, to use in a mirrored. The only requirement is that the mirrored pairs within the pool are the same size. The steps i will follow are: But when i try to create a zfs pool i get an error that they are different sizes. This is how i set up a mirrored zfs file system on a system with one 500 gb hdd and one 250 gb. Create a single disk zfs pool with the new disk, copy all the data over from the old disk to the new disk, then format. Alternatively, you could first create a 500 gb pool containing a mirror with disk 1 and disk 2 and keep disk 3 for later, then add a second mirror.

The steps i will follow are: Zfs on 2 differently sized drives. I'd like to migrate to ubuntu and zfs, but not quite sure what is possible with zfs. Should you want to maximize size and do not care that much about performance or best practices, you can partition all the drives. I have two different sized disks that i want to mirror in zfs. This is how i set up a mirrored zfs file system on a system with one 500 gb hdd and one 250 gb. I'd like to buy 2x 6tb drives, to use in a mirrored. The only requirement is that the mirrored pairs within the pool are the same size. Zfs does prefer to use the raw drive so ideally. Create a single disk zfs pool with the new disk, copy all the data over from the old disk to the new disk, then format.

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Zfs Mirror Different Size Disks The only requirement is that the mirrored pairs within the pool are the same size. The steps i will follow are: I'd like to migrate to ubuntu and zfs, but not quite sure what is possible with zfs. This is how i set up a mirrored zfs file system on a system with one 500 gb hdd and one 250 gb. Alternatively, you could first create a 500 gb pool containing a mirror with disk 1 and disk 2 and keep disk 3 for later, then add a second mirror. Zfs does prefer to use the raw drive so ideally. I'd like to buy 2x 6tb drives, to use in a mirrored. Zfs on 2 differently sized drives. I have two different sized disks that i want to mirror in zfs. The only requirement is that the mirrored pairs within the pool are the same size. Create a single disk zfs pool with the new disk, copy all the data over from the old disk to the new disk, then format. Should you want to maximize size and do not care that much about performance or best practices, you can partition all the drives. But when i try to create a zfs pool i get an error that they are different sizes.