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
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