Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:00:29 +0100 From: Sven <debeuk@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sector size of a zvol Message-ID: <CAAVLh2MFhnSzjK1yA-CpTvC=Hz%2Bb3eEqD4FoPyzOuynVG=mpSg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1RtICc-00095q-1M@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <E1RtICc-00095q-1M@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>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
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