[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

[Jan Owoc]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
>> Finally, it looks like OI has some support for 4k sector disks:
>>
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847
>>
>> and ZFS pools can be created with the 'zpool create block-size 4096
>> ...'
>> option.
>
> The patch allowing this option was, for various reasons, rejected, and no such option currently exists.

Are you able to forward a link to the reasons?

I'm asking because were they technical (i.e. something breaks), or
merely political (and there isn't a reason why OI couldn't ship zpool
with the patch)?

Jan