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Date:      Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:41:41 +0100
From:      Johannes Totz <jtotz@imperial.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AF (4096 byte sector) drives: Can you mix/match in a ZFS pool?
Message-ID:  <j75536$e1c$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E95AE08.7030105@lerctr.org>
References:  <4E95AE08.7030105@lerctr.org>

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On 12/10/2011 16:11, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> I have a root on ZFS box with 6 drives, all 400G (except one 500G) in a
> pool.
> 
> I want to upgrade to 2T or 3T drives, but was wondering if you can
> mix/match while doing the drive by drive
> replacement.
> 
> This is on 9.0-BETA3 if that matters.

Not sure if this applies to you...
I tried to add a 4k-gnop'd drive to an existing 512-byte-sector pool.
And zpool tool complained about alignment mismatch.
This was on a recent 8-stable. It didn't work.





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