From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 13:02:08 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 174B8106567A for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mailgw.dannysplace.net (mailgw.dannysplace.net [204.109.56.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5048FC25 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [203.206.171.212] (helo=[192.168.10.12]) by mailgw.dannysplace.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ri415-000A3U-31; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:03:03 +1000 Message-ID: <4F02FC42.1040103@dannysplace.net> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:01:54 +1000 From: Dan Carroll User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krad References: <4F003EB8.6080006@dannysplace.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: danny X-Authenticator: plain X-Exim-Version: 4.76 (build at 08-Jun-2011 18:40:49) X-Date: 2012-01-03 23:02:59 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:62807 X-Message-Linecount: 24 X-Body-Linecount: 11 X-Message-Size: 1088 X-Body-Size: 472 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.206.171.212 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on damka.dannysplace.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mailgw.dannysplace.net) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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 13:02:08 -0000 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? -D