On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Richard Elling <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 2, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Mark wrote: > >> There are two issues. >> >> The first is correct partition alignment, the second ashift value. >> >> In "theory", I haven't tested this yet, manually creating the slices with a >> start position to sector 64 and using slices instead of whole disks for the >> zpool devices, and creating with an ashift of 12 may produce the desired >> outcome. > > Default starting offset for slice 0 is sector 256 for 512-byte sector disks. > You shouldn't have to manually touch these unless you are running an > ancient (circa 2006-2007) version of Solaris where the default offset was 34.
Yes, but be warned: the format command will try to make fdisk partitions that are aligned on "cyninder" boundaries, which are usually odd numbers of sectors. I have a fix for that here: http://yalms.org/cr/zfs-blksize/ (the first three files. ignore the zfs part for now) Gordon _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
