[OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

[George Wilson]

On Jun 12, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> 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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I have not tried this but you might be able to do change sd.conf and then run 'update_drv -f sd' prior to starting the installation.

- George