Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:49:04 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: yRe: zfs boot on 4k drives in -STABLE Message-ID: <AANLkTimCe-=SXygF8_FvpnegAw1doSTJ8X6WYpAQHsq-@mail.gmail.com>
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U On Sunday, 20 February 2011, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) as I thought realigning the boot partition didn't help >
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