On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Elaine Ashton wrote: > If I fdisk 2 disks to have EFI partitions and label them with the > appropriate partition beginning at sector 34 and then give them to ZFS > for a pool, ZFS would appear to change the beginning sector to 256.
Right. This is done deliberately so that we don't generate misaligned I/Os. By switching from 34 to 256, we start on a 128k boundary. I can dig up the CR if you're curious how this was done. Regards, markm _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss