[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on 4k disks?

[George Wilson]

Jim,

I had done some testing when I put together my blog post on booting a 4K 
sector rpool and didn't encounter any. Here's the post if you would like 
to do some more digging:

http://blog.delphix.com/gwilson/2012/11/15/4k-sectors-and-zfs/

Thanks,
George

On 2/3/13 7:55 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>   While thinking about Reg's setup, I began wondering: are there
> any known issues with rpool using ashift=12 - perhaps in GRUB or
> in the rpool-importing code? Is there anything hard-coded for the
> ashift=9 on rpools (or equivalently limited in terms of available
> RAM)? That is, may we recommend certain workarounds to create the
> aligned partitions and the properly ashifted rpool to match the
> larger hardware sector, or would that lead to an unbootable system?
>
> Thanks,
> //Jim
>
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