From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 07:37:19 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 4091E1CB for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from babel.karthauser.co.uk (212-13-197-151.karthauser.co.uk [212.13.197.151]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24D466018 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dspam (212-13-197-151.karthauser.co.uk [212.13.197.151]) by babel.karthauser.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id A08CBAD3 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unnamed-72.karthauser.co.uk (unnamed-72.karthauser.co.uk [90.155.77.72]) (Authenticated sender: joemail@tao.org.uk) by babel.karthauser.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E5D8AD1; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:37:00 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_701C5C32-4056-494D-A19B-97CD89DAC599"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 From: Dr Josef Karthauser In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:36:59 +0000 Message-Id: References: <1548B1FF-36E2-4AE4-ADD4-3B8872A9DF55@tao.org.uk> <549EC712.3010909@multiplay.co.uk> <549EC87C.2010909@multiplay.co.uk> To: Warren Block X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Sun Dec 28 07:37:05 2014 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 549fb32126845466020815 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland 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 07:37:19 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_701C5C32-4056-494D-A19B-97CD89DAC599 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >=20 >> I only have 'zfs_load=3D?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! :). >=20 > Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes. >=20 Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions = weren=92t 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=92s been fixed since. Many thanks folk for your help! Cheers, Joe --Apple-Mail=_701C5C32-4056-494D-A19B-97CD89DAC599 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUn7MbAAoJEGdCjs+EVN/YCRwIAIxpThDngAh7d/NAUXzoplqv ZRnrZWt5o+jSDyKLnDBOaXEaSw6fnnq3dJ2fe6tZgxfZ7qBORzQdEhOMqzgh18lm I5v8p5PnpjRjApqXIdsFPi0+ODttz+kBMwj2nGmchhYK3MPE1+nEbNqnTAbs9SVR oWl/ZAt2K5oMTAwjk3m4q82XQXgTh9EQn6tMdVUUJy7O55lfl2ORcXCt/fcg7VmN J31WKuEylq7TL+sDoaUXk/KtaaPSXRZeOEYzthgBjTdxhSvS02UQmJkxWrYJW+r7 nb5wzbiesvYAk4M2smYMhfDYDYNcxKST1Vi7DWve21W2MUwyOoMGbyKLOW15AY4= =KtJC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_701C5C32-4056-494D-A19B-97CD89DAC599--