From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 20:06:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D64CEDB for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) (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 ACA2364C0B for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id r20so20558244wiv.2 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:06:24 -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 :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xPzZhi4RQNSiG6sRWCdQBHnY9YfuOQ5Q9ZqlvbyJSQk=; b=UX3iVOiFyXuHLhHB0tRCcVXsi7xHI5O5C84Glta8Gmiu+VeZTOYAGhxxmzu37G1HnG LkqR40e5gulU9IOXTUO8WiC1/ANFzVxjeHAX63qpMwYMmC19zK/Pe7wk5KrDUothRjwV v31uGwLpdSRNOoUMHURJU89TRQC+1o5kXxISm4Jt0pj/UppfFuz3uNF4Xg3s55+3bxxn BBqyMLPi7fneTYwQadcVWD4+E9pGl4n+U5iPqDkmQjwzYnYsM1RtYdHSUvH5nJQQ1+Rs n1Mf+o5dlcB1MtEOlWVU7lwbxTUz2JwStvp2vMMi3UUK+n7NF1vz9rmfG+IpAm9yHpSR h9tA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnqw3LLqBDRwgxmIWDZ6yNl6/howpxrEFHDErG7K7regJoaOAlKQ+WN3JGqbmON3nAGo9wK X-Received: by 10.194.83.41 with SMTP id n9mr38423627wjy.133.1419797184275; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:06:24 -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 vs8sm22369333wjc.6.2014.12.28.12.06.22 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:06:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A062B7.1080701@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:06:15 +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: Warren Block , Dr Josef Karthauser 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 20:06:32 -0000 On 28/12/2014 19:44, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, 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! > > Alignment alone should not have fixed it. While misaligned drives > give poor performance, they should still work. Indeed, possibly a bad BIOS? Regards Steve