ZFS raidz and 4k sector disks

[Matthias]

Right now only WD uses 4k. There are still other manufacturers who supply old-style 2TB drives.
 
On 4 mei 2010, at 01:06, Raphael Becker wrote:

> Hi *,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:55:33PM +0400, Alexey Tarasov wrote:
>> I've tried all methods and realized that unfortunately the only working method is gnop. So you can't use these disks for ZFS at all now.
> 
> I'm planning to buy two 2-TB-drives for ZFS with FreeBSD 8.0.
> I don't know about the sector size of this drives, but lets assume 4k
> 
> I there any documented and recommend way to get 4k-drives working with 
> ZFS with *good* performance? Do we need a workaround here or is updating
> to a latest -STABLE a solution here? 
> 
> TIA
> Raphael Becker
> 
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