Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-29 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:04:49AM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: .. evidently doesn't work. GRUB reboots the machine moments after loading stage2, and doesn't recognise the fstype when examining the disk loaded from an alernate source. This is with SX-151. Here's hoping a future version

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-08-01 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:22:36AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: If you want to try it, the patch can be found at http://cr.illumos.org/view/6qc99xkh/illumos-1303-webrev/illumos-1303-webrev.patch Any chance of providing an alternate stage1/stage2 binary I can feed to installgrub? When

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-09-14 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:18:48AM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: I see via the issue tracker that there have been several updates since, and an integration back into the main Illumos tree. How do I go about getting hold of current boot blocks? The OpenIndiana release that was announced

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-09-15 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:10:21PM -0400, Daniel Carosone wrote: Yep, saw that and have it here ready to boot and install grub. I hope the fact that the pool itself is v31 for zfs crypto will not be a problem.. I doubt that works. IIRC the highest supported zpool and zfs versions are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question on 4k sectors

2012-07-19 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:29:38PM +0200, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I think the problem is with disks that are 4k organised, but report their blocksize as 512. If the disk reports it's blocksize correctly as 4096, then ZFS should not have a problem. At least my 2TB Seagate Barracuda disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] configure ST33000650SS with 4k advanced sector format

2012-12-07 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:36:46AM -0500, Christof Haemmerle wrote: i cannot figure out how to make openindiana recognize the seagate ES.2 SAS 3TB (ST33000650SS) as a 4k advanced sector drive. Are you sure this is an 4k sector drive? The drives manual doesn't mention anything about 4k