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To: se@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ari@ish.com.au
Subject: Re: getting to 4K disk blocks in ZFS
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> This may never hit you, but ZFS is built on the assumption, that it
> cannot happen at all, which is no longer true with 4KB drives that
> are used with ashift=9.

Have just been reading this thread, and as people are suggesting
moving ashift from 9 to 12, doesnt using use 512B drives with
ahift=12 also violate this ? Or is it smart enough ot know that
the underlying sectors are separate ?

-pete.