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On 02/02/2011 05:52, krad wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A quick question. Im upgrading my filer at home to have 2x 2tb samsung
> F4EG drives. I believe these are 4k drives. I'm intending to use the
> gnop trick to get zfs ashift to 12. Will this make my pool unbootable.
> I have read a few threads aluding to this.

There have been bugs which make such drives unbootable but they have 
been fixed at least in CURRENT (I haven't tried it).