Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 28 Dec 2014 at 7:44:29 pm GMT, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
    
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
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> > On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
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> >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
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> >>> I only have 'zfs_load=?YES?? in my /boot/loader.conf. I?m hoping the problem is that I missed the ?-a4k? on the ?gpart add?. I?m starting again and will report back whether it now works or not! :).
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> >> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions weren?t aligned!
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> Alignment alone should not have fixed it.  While misaligned drives give poor performance, they should still work.

Alas, they weren't. I tried several times with differing pool configurations.

Joe