From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 23:51:21 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 745521065691 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:51:21 +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 E99098FC12 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:51:20 +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 1RiE9O-00076v-V4; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:52:16 +1000 Message-ID: <4F039470.9010405@dannysplace.net> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:51:12 +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> <4F02FC42.1040103@dannysplace.net> <4F0311F2.7050209@brockmann-consult.de> <4F0312DF.8050004@brockmann-consult.de> <20120103162428.GA18661@icarus.home.lan> 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: 2012-01-04 09:52:15 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:61311 X-Message-Linecount: 23 X-Body-Linecount: 10 X-Message-Size: 1302 X-Body-Size: 417 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 3 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 3 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 23:51:21 -0000 On 4/01/2012 9:31 AM, krad wrote: > There has been.quite a bit of discussion on this already and I think the > safest way is to always 4k align as this works fine on.both drive types Actually that does make sense. 99% of my files on this volume (office data / media server) will be larger than 4k anyway so I guess there is nothing to lose by aligning to a 4k boundry *and* asking ZFS to use 4k block size. -D