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On 9/11/2015 10:12 PM, Quartz wrote:
>> The gnop trick is to force the *size* of ZFS blocks to be 4K.
>
> Jumping in here quick- the 'gnop trick' is only necessary for 9.x,
> right? 10.x can just use ashift?

The ashift method also works for 9.3 for sure (I never used 9.2 so can't 
say).