Tag: sector
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ZFS: zpool replace returns error: cannot replace, devices have different sector alignment
Trying to replace a failed SSD in a zpool we encountered the following error: cannot replace 4233944908106055 with ata-INTEL_SSDSC2BW240A4_CVD02KY2403GN: devices have different sector alignment The pool was aligned to 4k sectors – e.g. ashift=12 – whereas the new SSD was aligned to 512b sectors. There’s a quick and easy fix to this –…