From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 16:54:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F9655AB for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com [209.85.212.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E666264CE9 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f169.google.com with SMTP id r20so22073172wiv.4 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:54:08 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XC6SVaulDxFef9Ikpm4SYMZWUWZVId4ANKsF16pwwAU=; b=mpknNTvgNpiLfHcVrwpYCUJJH7cyFC4TbWS4At/blZLnPO1oDUAny56IO9yxzPUnz7 37KGjHmLZqwPnzWx9Nn6zlAN4nMqk1zzy560LRczMFc65+5TK3YsLFgD6u7y0+0Zvyhn JHxYmIe6i2nU/gD/pg8MrH0gL8yXNtwPo4Oe/mvmhEfi33HLK8UkCuQ+9/FyLqFGbn78 zG6odS0+soiGpqcNO02jM2vJZdpKiNaiJzGhZFcH/S3aWNT1IS2vJAKeseZ9egzJIinR NT74nS7qw3Gq/1JUd50frNzCG0jzQG3hx5YyKQsiNSu40SWI7o/cvSGpa/KBbOvwxXE8 x78Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk7BCS8JbkLejfJ92bH1w6fIFdmt7J7qIUpfHKxDB43uHZVUeQAKiD2oiu1ZNfBE3TXL0D4 X-Received: by 10.180.20.50 with SMTP id k18mr88932024wie.31.1419785647926; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.10.1.68] (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. [82.69.141.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ep9sm36216972wid.3.2014.12.28.08.54.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:54:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A035A7.7010401@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:53:59 +0000 From: Steven Hartland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? References: <1548B1FF-36E2-4AE4-ADD4-3B8872A9DF55@tao.org.uk> <549EC712.3010909@multiplay.co.uk> <549EC87C.2010909@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:54:10 -0000 On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >> >>> I only have 'zfs_load=?YES?? in my /boot/loader.conf. I?m hoping the problem is that I missed the ?-a4k? on the ?gpart add?. I?m starting again and will report back whether it now works or not! :). >> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes. >> > Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions weren’t aligned! > > As to whether they ought to be aligned by default, this box is on a slightly older version: > > 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul 8 06:37:44 UTC 2014 > > so perhaps that’s been fixed since. > > Many thanks folk for your help! > Would you mind testing to see if this is indeed fixed in 10.1 or current? Would be good to ensure this is actually fixed? Regards Steve