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Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:37:16 -0700
From:      Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: fdisk(8) vs gpart(8), and gnop
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
wrote:

>
> My bigger concern is this pool upgrade one -- what if someone puts in a 4K
> disk in the future?
>
>
We could dynamically change the "effective ashift" by preferring to
allocate multiples of 4K.  This would involve some work in the space
allocator.  Again, I don't have time to do this right now but would be
happy to mentor someone.

--matt



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