On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Simon via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I know that SmartOS does not officially support 4k drives (ashift=12). > I am a little late to the party on this thread, but wanted to respond because I spent quite a bit of time on this topic when I first started using SmartOS a few years ago. SmartOS does support 4k drives, but you just have to be a little more aware of block size with creating virtual disks in a KVM instance. When you create kvm instances, you will need to set your virtual disk block size to "block_size": 32768. The default block size doesn't work for 4k drives. You won't see any problems what so ever with regular zones. I wish I still had the reference where I found this information, but I've lost it. If you look back through the mailing list archives, you will see where I talked at length about this topic. -- Greg J. Zartman Board Member Koozali SME Server www.koozali.org SME Server user, contributor, and community member since 2000 ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
