From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 17:45:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C834EE81 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f48.google.com (mail-wg0-f48.google.com [74.125.82.48]) (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 5A406664BD for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id y19so17379335wgg.21 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:45:29 -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=/XyEPPKXLx7WJKlWBSAUbjZCX7n7xRcMFTlcAr3c2NE=; b=h2w2zehsu6aiZXWwicVgVBI744Ir2CAbNDjGS0T7kfu05EZVy0giemFNSnAW3FgemW n/X/X2Lu9ctlwvw+aFjwI0qOPTuXf/5xvFGNc9LvMzSY3nK2wBW0HD7sVP7e6cXlOFfX JZdDu0CHhtreIuKWf8EAaq1PtBjnwSvhREfmlRZvpG9ZXNDMroBQo+WNzi7icW907MiO cqOQrz1E1WST1q7b8h8gLIs5YjveEeOwWRwIR7hAxevs/CdSWg11QQCqangcj6/uf0Ai ndA28FSGQujRUg75y4clEp+NwRynBOit/6lEL87RtzK093PPAlC3s3Eb1daqC3C+LGli glKw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm3qQOhaVcKBEp2oXFbbEWgcqP1YBAJGUqDB964MerB81CutZ+QaYqtdLsQJu5gHMMuZjeQ X-Received: by 10.194.75.195 with SMTP id e3mr45990740wjw.44.1419788729627; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:45:29 -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 ej10sm39720248wib.1.2014.12.28.09.45.28 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:45:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A041B2.4080400@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:45:22 +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>, , , , <54A035A7.7010401@multiplay.co.uk> <54a03e50.886f320a.3f53.ffffe8cbSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <54a03e50.886f320a.3f53.ffffe8cbSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; 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 17:45:32 -0000 On 28/12/2014 17:30, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> 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? >> > Grr. I've just updated to 10.1 and now my ata controllers are erroring like crazy! Luckily booting kernel.old works. > > We're there issues with 10.1? > We've had some people report issues with AHCI, but no one in the team has been able to reproduce. Do you have any more details? Regards Steve