Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-21 Thread nathank
Hang on - IIRC, it's only yes to that question if the drive itself advertises that it's 4K sectors. I believed that if it uses 4K sectors, but *advertises* that it uses 512 byte blocks, then it goes to crap pretty quickly. (witness Netapp FC luns, many SSD's etc) Is there actually a fix

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-21 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4f435ca9.8010...@tuneunix.com, nathank writes: Is there actually a fix to allow manual setting of ashift now that I No. URL:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1462/zpool-1m.html John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread Dave Pooser
If I want to use a batch of new Seagate 3TB Barracudas with Solaris 11, will zpool let me create a new pool with ashift=12 out of the box or will I need to play around with a patched zpool binary (or the iSCSI loopback)? -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4k sector support in Solaris 11?

2012-02-16 Thread John D Groenveld
In message cb62bfe5.52f20%dave@alfordmedia.com, Dave Pooser writes: If I want to use a batch of new Seagate 3TB Barracudas with Solaris 11, I'm using the Seagate's 3TB external drive with S11. Seagate Expansion 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive STAY3000102 will zpool let me create a