[OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

[Richard Elling]

On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) <openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:

>> From: Steve Goldthorpe [mailto:OpenIndiana at waistcoat.org.uk]
>> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:23 PM
>> 
>> No matter what I try I can't seem to get a 4K aligned root pool using the
>> OpenIndiana installer (oi151-a7 live image).
>> I'm using ESXi using 4K aligned disks.  
> 
> You shouldn't put ESX volumes in rpool.  Create a separate pool - if necessary first partition your disk - and put the volumes into the second pool.
> 
> If you partition your disk, you should be aware that zfs only enables the disk hardware write-back cache for systems where zfs has control of the whole disk.  So you might have to script something with "format" to enable the disk cache on those devices.

The write-back cache is not disabled. So if it is enabled by VMware by default, then
it remains enabled.
 -- richard

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