From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (gate001.proxmox.com [45.144.208.40]) by lore.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FCF61FF0B7 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gate001.proxmox.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate001.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 3392D21491; Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:58:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Dietmar Maurer To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Subject: [PATCH pve-docs] installation: zfs: hdsize applies to all disks of the pool Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:58:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20261016075808.1393338-1-dietmar@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 2 AWL -0.197 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment (newer systems) KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY 1 Sending domain does not have any anti-forgery methods RDNS_NONE 1.274 Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_NONE 0.001 SPF: sender does not publish an SPF Record Message-ID-Hash: B64SWHSCUFQOZDCLAXJ7RBJOLCGBU3ZF X-Message-ID-Hash: B64SWHSCUFQOZDCLAXJ7RBJOLCGBU3ZF X-MailFrom: dietmar@zilli.proxmox.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Since pve-installer commit 8269582 ("zfs: assume that all devices are boot devices"), the installer partitions every disk of a ZFS setup as a boot disk and limits each of them to hdsize, at every RAID level. The restriction to the first disk or mirror of a RAID0, RAID1 or RAID10 setup predates that change. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Maurer --- pve-installation.adoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pve-installation.adoc b/pve-installation.adoc index 5799bf4..875367a 100644 --- a/pve-installation.adoc +++ b/pve-installation.adoc @@ -352,8 +352,8 @@ details. Defines the total hard disk size to be used. This is useful to save free space on the hard disk(s) for further partitioning (for example to create a -swap-partition). `hdsize` is only honored for bootable disks, that is only the -first disk or mirror for RAID0, RAID1 or RAID10, and all disks in RAID-Z[123]. +swap-partition). `hdsize` applies to every disk of the pool, as the installer +sets up all of them as bootable disks. [[advanced_btrfs_options]] Advanced BTRFS Configuration Options -- 2.47.3