i think I've just got a problem because of machine age!
if I can muster enough courage .... ok, well, being retired, what can
harm me now?
I have my sata controllers in that machine in ide mode... gaah..
There was a problem in Solaris 11/Opensolaris around builds << 97 or so
that meant I had to do that, or else my machines would reboot at random.
I think I know the problem is gone since b134 at least, and I almost
remember, I think, doing some kind of reconfiguring and recapturing the
rpool from a live CD on another box on account of that problem.
It's years ago so my memory of the event has been almost erased
I hope that will work without reinstalliing. All the devices and dev
trees naming looks very different.
Will I have to export/backup the entire thing to another disk, and
reconfigure and import/recv/something back, or can I just change the
SATA mode and recreate the devices and dev trees from a live cd w/o
loosing the rpool?
I realised this when I happened to check things on another machine, by
mistake, a machine with proper settings and seeing very different
behaviour in the inquire command.
My face is crimson!
Reinstall needed??? S----t!!!
On 2013-03-17 16:38, Jan Owoc wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue
is
discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS
drives.....
After reading this page [1], what specific further questions do you
have? The goal is to have that page a catch-all for your kind of
question.
[1] http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks
Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but:
Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how to
produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is actually 4k
physical blocksize but reports having 512 bytes blocks.
The trick of editing sd.conf shouldn't work on SATA drives, since they're
not scsi, and sd.conf deals with SCSI harddisks plus some ATAPI CD/DVDs and
such..
>From what I understood, both SATA and SCSI drives can be modified
using sd.conf, but I don't have any drives I can test at the moment,
so either of us could be wrong ;-).
However, there is a sample listing of drives that can be entered into
sd.conf [2], and many (all?) of them are SATA, so that is where I
presumed it would work with SATA. Let me know if it doesn't, as I will
may to work with such drives in the near future.
[2]
http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/List+of+sd-config-list+entries+for+Advanced-Format+drives
Cheers,
Jan
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