Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:35:10 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs boot on 4k drives in -STABLE Message-ID: <AANLkTin2vm1cWynrfM=SC4gwxqyoGR%2B26FOE2gtM63Lz@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik1UFqkPxYzjua8g_TfRfPKa=0Fkeerf0FTo_N=@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=QDZGO-T%2BSvJfBMaUCHJ%2B34bPGC2vVy3B3x%2Bv7@mail.gmail.com> <4D5DD580.9040701@freebsd.org> <AANLkTik0BHfR87-ij4hQm9fjoCYbzz54U-D9Ms=-u95H@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTik1UFqkPxYzjua8g_TfRfPKa=0Fkeerf0FTo_N=@mail.gmail.com>
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On 20 February 2011 11:25, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 February 2011 10:55, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 18 February 2011 02:12, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> wrote= : >>> On 02/17/11 20:30, krad wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> What is the current state of zfs booting of a 4k aligned drive >>>> (ashift=3D12)? I have tried the patch in pr153695 but it wont apply >>>> cleanly to stable as I think it is meant for current. Is one going to >>>> be made available for STABLE at any point? >>> >>> It works fine. Use the gptzfsboot and zfsloader from here and you're >>> good to go - no patches or anything else required: >>> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/zfsboot/ >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Lawrence >>> >> >> >> thanks for the advice ill give it a go >> > > well the binary versions didnt seem to work. The drive is 4k aligned > apart from the boot partition. Surely this wouldnt have an affect > though would it? > > # gpart show ad7 > =3D> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A034 =A03907029101 =A0ad7 =A0GPT =A0(1.8T) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A034 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 128 =A0 =A01 =A0freebsd-boot =A0(64= K) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 162 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 6 =A0 =A0 =A0 - free - =A0(3.0K) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 168 =A0 =A0 6291456 =A0 =A02 =A0freebsd-swap =A0(3.0G) > =A0 =A0 6291624 =A03900213229 =A0 =A03 =A0freebsd-zfs =A0(1.8T) > =A03906504853 =A0 =A0 =A0524282 =A0 =A04 =A0freebsd-ufs =A0(256M) > after realigning the boot partition it still failed to boot
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