[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS improvements.

[Maurilio Longo]

Mark,

Mark wrote:
> With WD EARS disks, since they do not expose the 4K size to the OS,
> there is not much to be gained with their internal 4k sector size.

Yes, you need a zpool command able to handle the ashift=12.

> Performance and reliability with these is also poor. The fixed, large
> TLER defaults cause constant dropouts, and I have found from experience
> that these disks don't work well with ZFS.
> 

Good to know, so to speak :)

Maurilio


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