Preparing ZFS drives

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> How should I label and prepare the drives for ZFS?  Someone ought to write a ???cookbook??? on that!

Basically, what I once did, was this:

zpool create bck raidz2 ada2 ada3 ada4 ada5 ada6 ada7 ada8 ada9

Therefore: raw disks, nothing else.

> Do I need to start the volume on a particular sector boundary?
> 
> Are the 4096 byte sector drives usable?

I think the default is now 4096 anyway.

https://charsiurice.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/checking-ashift-on-existing-pools/

describes the command to check for 4096 blocks:

zdb -C | grep ashift

If it displays

	ashift: 9

the blocks are 512 bytes.

If it displays

	ashift: 12

the block size is 4096.

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