[OpenIndiana-discuss] The+AShift+Value+and+Advanced+Format+disks+and+ZFS

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Are you saying that you have no idea at all if these facilities have 
been implemented anywhere??

Can anyone else say???

On 2012-06-17 17:51, Richard Elling wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>
>> 2012-06-16 19:41, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>>> are the overrides described in that wiki page available in OI151a4??
>>>> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/The+AShift+Value+and+Advanced+Format+disks+and+ZFS
>> Renamed to:
>> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks
>>
>> In the course of discussion, and by further updates from Richard Elling,
>> I was led to believe that the sd.conf overrides are part of the lowlevel
>> illumos-gate shared by several distros, including OI.
> There are two ways to set overrides:
> 1. compile them into the driver, which was common for Sun to do for Sun hardware
> 2. add them to the driver configuration files
>
> IMHO, #2 is much easier than compiling them in, and can be done more easily by
> distros. When I worked at Nexenta, I proposed fixes that did change the default
> driver config files, but I do not follow Nexenta's current distributions to see if the
> fixes were integrated. In any case, your distribution might have applied changes there.
>   -- richard
>