[OmniOS-discuss] Advanced format disks – 512E

[Richard Elling]

On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Matthew Frazer <mattfrazer at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a question I've been meaning to ask as well.
> 
> Using the information at http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks I've edited the sd.conf on my systems to include the drives I wish to have 4k sector sizes on. On Solaris 11.1 this achieves the proper ashift on 4k drives whether they report 4k or 512e to the system. The same sd.conf does not, at least in my experience, result in an ashift of 12 on OmniOS. My workaround has been to create my pools in 11.1 with version flags set compatible to what omnios supports, then import them into OmniOS and then zfs upgrade them. I'd love to find out I've been doing it wrong as it would simplify pool creation greatly for me.
> 
The file is very sensitive to spaces and format, including separators. Make sure you
have the file exactly as needed.
 -- richard

--

Richard.Elling at RichardElling.com
+1-760-896-4422



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omniosce.org/ml-archive/attachments/20130820/bab281b8/attachment.html>