Re: ZFS and 4k sector drives

2010-11-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i was sure it have variable sizes but multiplies of 4k, anyway i dont care ;) using 32 or 64K blocks (means 4 or 8K fragments) with UFS and full disks, or partitions aligned to 4K solves all problems ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: ZFS and 4k sector drives

2010-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/15/10 20:24, Wojciech Puchar wrote: work with ZFS raidz2 pools. It seems that most of the 4k sector drives are using emulation, and reporting 512 byte sectors to the OS instead of their native 4k size. I know someone who had an issue trying to insert one of these drives into a running ZFS p

Re: ZFS and 4k sector drives

2010-11-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
work with ZFS raidz2 pools. It seems that most of the 4k sector drives are using emulation, and reporting 512 byte sectors to the OS instead of their native 4k size. I know someone who had an issue trying to insert one of these drives into a running ZFS pool with other 512 byte sector drives w