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

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Is the OI151 kernel going to be updated anytime soon?

Alternatively, if I have an OI151a4 machine running well on a SuperMicro 
machine, is there another Illumos distro I could move to w/o too much pain?

On 2012-06-20 00:28, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:54:47 -0400
> From: Rich<rercola at acm.jhu.edu>
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> https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/2384d9f8fcca0a7ef8b3ae674d94df82832c0fce
> sure looks like it does this in Illumos, though I don't think the OI
> kernel in 151a4 is that new [OI IllumOS kernel is dated April 2012,
> that patch went into IllumOS early May].
>
> - Rich
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Hans J. Albertsson
> <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se>  wrote:
>> >  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
>>> >>
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