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Subject: Re: ZFS stripesize patch (in the context of 4k sector drives)
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On 11/12/10 16:00, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Any objections to me committing the following patch?
>
> The intention is to use stripesize info from GEOM in creating vdevs, in
> the hope that the 4 KiB sector magic will work.

Or maybe not. I've grepped and other tools use stripesize in the way its 
name suggests - as RAID stripe size, not as logical sector size.

New idea on the menu: make the logical sector size a separate concept 
and a separate variable from stripe size. Would that be a better approach?