From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 14:34:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2C51065672 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:34:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141F88FC18 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.0.26] ([141.4.215.32]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MbcdF-1S0aAQ43xF-00IqOm; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:34:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4F0311F2.7050209@brockmann-consult.de> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:34:26 +0100 From: Peter Maloney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <4F003EB8.6080006@dannysplace.net> <4F02FC42.1040103@dannysplace.net> In-Reply-To: <4F02FC42.1040103@dannysplace.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:l2WImqyTl1cjsQc3k9+OYl2GYB0ywc4PSFujXlWpFka trAHYA4EOqx5cT4/qFBDKQReFYI2AzwmjW/n2wrz1ZUSAgY1ZS 0yyvYPyu/Wsw1KZRY6GUJtvju04VgVLFM6MLtVAvM7/HCKGaBM zkmRMXCHAbPBtbfVEaaUtO1LbNyowzbwmkpA0M+EhU8Guf1Kne hUJURbkJr5YUHt6PK3D43b50Ev8wt2APJJIL89n8aydlzL9uR1 Yu9GU3YWSanvluIewx4fu7dQNHWDYnY5CI4QcDhg+OBQPQfKng s8dSxplYYaDxC6TlPNVbw3Waap0zbvxpdFSE8XzUz1Po2weT45 2ouXCVeVXm+5nFTz2oxLdzRVmob4rpna64b+2WZNB Subject: Re: ZFS With Gpart partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:34:29 -0000 On 01/03/2012 02:01 PM, Dan Carroll wrote: > On 3/01/2012 10:27 PM, krad wrote: >> Just a not you dont appear to be 4k aligned on this drive. As the >> drive capacity is > 1.5 Tb you probably should be. You will also be >> ashift=9 as well. This may or may not be a problem for you. > > That was intentional, as I *thought* these drives were not 4k sector > drives. I am not sure how I am supposed to tell. They are WD RE4 > drives. > I confess, however to knowing nothing about ashift=9..... Could you > elaborate? Read this thread: ZFS using 'advanced format drives' with FreeBSD (8.2-RC3) http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21644 (and of course don't play around and run the dd command, etc. for disks with valuable data on them) > > -D > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- -------------------------------------------- Peter Maloney Brockmann Consult Max-Planck-Str. 2 21502 Geesthacht Germany Tel: +49 4152 889 300 Fax: +49 4152 889 333 E-mail: peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de Internet: http://www.brockmann-consult.de --------------------------------------------