Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:25:44 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs boot on 4k drives in -STABLE Message-ID: <AANLkTik1UFqkPxYzjua8g_TfRfPKa=0Fkeerf0FTo_N=@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik0BHfR87-ij4hQm9fjoCYbzz54U-D9Ms=-u95H@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=QDZGO-T%2BSvJfBMaUCHJ%2B34bPGC2vVy3B3x%2Bv7@mail.gmail.com> <4D5DD580.9040701@freebsd.org> <AANLkTik0BHfR87-ij4hQm9fjoCYbzz54U-D9Ms=-u95H@mail.gmail.com>
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On 19 February 2011 10:55, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 February 2011 02:12, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 02/17/11 20:30, krad wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> What is the current state of zfs booting of a 4k aligned drive >>> (ashift=12)? I have tried the patch in pr153695 but it wont apply >>> cleanly to stable as I think it is meant for current. Is one going to >>> be made available for STABLE at any point? >> >> It works fine. Use the gptzfsboot and zfsloader from here and you're >> good to go - no patches or anything else required: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/zfsboot/ >> >> Cheers, >> Lawrence >> > > > thanks for the advice ill give it a go > well the binary versions didnt seem to work. The drive is 4k aligned apart from the boot partition. Surely this wouldnt have an affect though would it? # gpart show ad7 => 34 3907029101 ad7 GPT (1.8T) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 6 - free - (3.0K) 168 6291456 2 freebsd-swap (3.0G) 6291624 3900213229 3 freebsd-zfs (1.8T) 3906504853 524282 4 freebsd-ufs (256M)
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