Oh I guess I should elaborate on that :-) What happens is that the larger disks gets coerced into a smaller size. So you lose the excess capacity at the end of the disk.
I am actually working on a raid concat that you can use to claim all unused space and make it into a larger disk but my first priority is getting softraid up to snuff so that we can get it enabled. When that happens we can move forward with new raid types and other neat features. On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:34:57PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > On 11/16/07, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:01:13AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > > > > Hijacking the thread a bit: Do all your disks need to be the same size > > > to use softraid? softraid(4) and bioctl(8) do not mention anything > > > about that. > > > > No you don't. Softraid will complain about asymmetric disks on creation > > time but it does not limit the user in any way. > > > > So what happens in that case? If data is written to the end of the > larger disk, is it just silently not mirrored on the smaller? > > -Nick
