[OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, George Wilson wrote:
>
> Illumos has a way to override the physical block size of a given disk by using the sd.conf file. Here's an example:
>
> sd-config-list =
> 	"DGC     RAID", "physical-block-size:4096",
> 	"NETAPP  LUN", "physical-block-size:4096";
>
>
> By adding the VID PID values into the sd-config-list along with the 
> 'physical-block-size' parameter you can override the value that the 
> disk will use for it's block size. ZFS will pick this up and use the 
> correct ashift value.

This can obviously work once the OS is installed and it is possible to 
edit system files.  Is there a way to apply it to the root pool when 
the system is installed?

Bob
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