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Subject: Re: zfs zvol: set geom mediasize right at creation time
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on 23/09/2012 04:04 Steven Hartland said the following:
> Do you know what the effect of the volblocksize change
> will have on a volume who's disk block size changes?
> e.g. via a quirk for a 4k disk being added

I am not sure that I got your question...
My patch doesn't affect neither volblocksize value nor disk block size [geom
property].
It changes only stripe size geom property.

> I ask as we've testing a patch here which changes ashift to
> be based on stripesize instead of sectorsize but in its
> current form it has some odd side effects on pools which
> are boot pools.
> 
> Said patch is attached for reference.

I think that the patch makes sense and would be curious to learn more about the
side-effects.

-- 
Andriy Gapon