Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

[Charles Sprickman]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote:

> On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running:
>>> 
>>> atapci0:<SiI 3124 SATA300 controller>  port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem
>>> 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef0000-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci7
>>> 
>>> atapci1:<SiI 3124 SATA300 controller>  port 0xac00-0xac0f mem
>>> 0xfbbffc00-0xfbbffc7f,0xfbbf0000-0xfbbf7fff irq 19 at device 4.0 on pci3
>>> 
>>> I added ahci_load="YES" to loader.conf and rebooted.  Now I see:
>> 
>> You can add siis_load="YES" to loader.conf for SiI 3124.
>
> Ahh, thank you.
>
> I'm afraid to do that now, before I label my ZFS drives for fear that the ZFS 
> array will be messed up.  But I do plan to do that for the system after my 
> plan is implemented.  Thank you.  :)

You may even get hotplug support if you're lucky. :)

I just built a box and gave it a spin with the "old" ata stuff and then 
with the "new" (AHCI) stuff.  It does perform a bit better and my BIOS 
claims it supports hotplug with ahci enabled as well...  Still have to 
test that.

Charles

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