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I this it's just ZFS that has that "limitation", LVM and Btrfs just let you mix drives of arbitrary sizes.
by KingMachiavelli 3y ago
I this it's just ZFS that has that "limitation", LVM and Btrfs just let you mix drives of arbitrary sizes.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoEverything raid has that limitation, including LVM, mdadm. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing#Expanding_existing_partitions https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing#Expanding_exi... Btrfs has a more flexible block allocator but its parity implementation is still unreliable.
- zorrotorro 3y agoZFS will also let you mix drives of different sizes. And the pool would grow as soon as you remove the smallest one.