From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 15:25:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6321065675 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from debeuk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f47.google.com (mail-qw0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6547D8FC17 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so932414qad.13 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:25:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=LSJm97nYo64ZlPI/zHvHkwJkKi8qQ59j/vudGum/40E=; b=A7/dXvzEfOnDGEdeZ5KqWLvBxeAma8XFew06VuHBFnSSdBFFtYX1QD/5RlHXHtlxu6 nE23e0NVWUqa6IUh+lKKWuJVFXDU8aLlnN+oDn1vV712kU9gK99YkbiG+SeoHt19mIi/ OmV/X5b/UoIyZCdRl2xaVKRN8lPh2KTk59NkA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.77.78 with SMTP id f14mr2914623qck.67.1328281229910; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.248.75 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:00:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:00:29 +0100 Message-ID: From: Sven To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Sector size of a zvol X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:25:06 -0000 On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Pete French wrote: > So, I was trying to create a disc witha sector size of 4096 bytes, and I > assumed that simply creating a zvol with that blocksize would do the trick. > But it appears that whatever the blocksize is on the xvol, diskinfo is > reporting the sector size as 512 bytes. > > I this the intended behaviour ? I dont have a Solaris system to hand to > test it on, so I have no ida if this is BSD specific or not. > > cheers, > > -pete. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You can use the method described here to create a zvol with 4k sector size: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-December/010350.html -- :wq