I am presenting ZFS zvols over iSCSI to other Solaris hosts, but am
losing quite a bit of disk space that I don't want to lose:

I create a zvol of 4GB, make a target of it, then add the static-config
to the iscsi initiator.

When I carve up the disk in format, it sees it as a 128-cylinder disk,
and reserves 2 of the cylinders as "spare".  That leaves me with a
3.94GB usable space.

If I manually change the geometry, I can get the 2 cylinders back (or
write a label that has a different cylinder size, reducing the "cost" of
the 2 spares), but I don't want to require all of my admins to do these
extra steps.

It looks like the disk geometry is specified in
/etc/iscsi/tgt/<target-alias>/params.0 -- There's entries for heads,
cylinders, etc. but I don't see any place to modify these (or to force
iscsitgtd to reread them)

Is this something that's changeable?

--Joe
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