well originally it was smart to partition the drives in ZFS and shave off a few GBs from the end to be unused space because HDD vendors didn't have identically sized drives. An 8GB from Seagate wasn't exactly the same size as an 8GB from WD, etc. But that problem doesn't really exist right now and ZFS is now tolerant of it.
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in reply to feld • • •@feld `zfs replace` still requires the incoming drive not to be smaller.
I still partition the drives.
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