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

[Gary Mills]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 02:45:05PM -0400, George Wilson wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> 
> >>> Also, I posted a bug report for it here
> >>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/2663
> >
> >  Seems the old post about the initial patch is here
> > https://www.illumos.org/issues/453
> 
>  Speaking of 4K sectors, I've taken a slightly different approach
> that fixes this outside of ZFS. The idea is to allow sd to override
> the physical-block-size which ZFS will pick up. The way this works
> is you can specify the Vendor/Product id in sd.conf. Here's an
> example:

> sd-config-list = "NETAPP  LUN, "physical-block-size:4096";

Yes, since this is a hardware issue, the best course of action would
be to list the offending disk drives in a system file.

Does the Netapp lie about the block size of its LUNs?

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