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On 04.05.2010, at 3:06, Raphael Becker wrote:

> I'm planning to buy two 2-TB-drives for ZFS with FreeBSD 8.0.
> I don't know about the sector size of this drives, but lets assume 4k
>=20
> I there any documented and recommend way to get 4k-drives working with=20=

> ZFS with *good* performance? Do we need a workaround here or is =
updating
> to a latest -STABLE a solution here?=20

If the disk exposes to OS right sector size, ZFS works good with it. =
Proved on gnop+zfs over fake 512 drives (WD15-EARS).


>=20
> TIA
> Raphael Becker
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