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Subject: Re: zfs boot on 4k drives in -STABLE
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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