ZFS on 4K drives - Expanding zpool and adding spares (gnop method)

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 2 14:13:35 UTC 2011


On 02/06/2011 15:49, a.smith at ukgrid.net wrote:
>> BTW, you might find this interesting:
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=222520
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> Thanks Andriy.
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> So will this cause any identified ada disk to be treated as 4K by
> FreeBSD for all operations? Ie under UFS, ZFS etc? Will be great!

No, it's a first step but file systems need to be adapted to use it.

On the other hand, UFS has been modified to use 4K by default, and gpart 
will probably get support for warnings in case of misalignment very soon.




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