Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:38:24 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: joe mcguckin <joe@via.net> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Preparing ZFS drives Message-ID: <CAOtMX2h83_dOjmyadQL61km6HuwZ31H1zrQiA4v07XkqRF-u%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CF6CB87D-D1A4-4328-976D-31764C0BD1F2@via.net> References: <CF6CB87D-D1A4-4328-976D-31764C0BD1F2@via.net>
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:10 AM joe mcguckin <joe@via.net> wrote: > Folks, > > I want to buy some 16TB drives and raid them up > > How should I label and prepare the drives for ZFS? Someone ought to writ= e > a =E2=80=98cookbook=E2=80=99 on that! > > Do I need to start the volume on a particular sector boundary? > > Are the 4096 byte sector drives usable? > > Thanks, > > Joe > > Joe McGuckin > ViaNet Communications > > joe@via.net > 650-207-0372 cell > 650-213-1302 office > 650-969-2124 fax > If you aren't going to boot from them, and you aren't using anything fancy like multipath JBODs, then you don't need to do anything at all. Just use the raw disks. And you don't need to worry about the sector size, unless you're planning to replace 512B disks with 4KB disks at some future date. -Alan
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