From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 20:07:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0631A138 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A156064C75 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id r20so20562320wiv.6 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:07:34 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=h7qoX/pFViOALt7zlQF3rpC1QR1bdB3AowF6VnBTk7o=; b=OCM6qW6pBxbXnNAsuaH84hibzHM7gQtPRLYpcHnbcW45ktO5wBI5H+IWi9PRXyM96W zpE+nx8TRet3V79wUgcCqsUMm8UCnqPhwjhAR/AZD/io3cYsEQgnkJ0qDqm9lFcfws+S BWC9EP1GIXU0BxVsHnOF96gQ89RSEkKsZTi5c9l6smVR99NIGSLK41IiWwtpWOJdqMXN 75f8iK418MC3qyqb6pNEgHuKVOhMZYjlmCHZFgxnAperpA6eqk5Vt974GQavkZFPGjDa qG6spEpzB4pIeazEfgvpPqLsBciFLEr6I6pgbFsKidZIB3RqsB5kKmBnZPyxidHW8ccC ISzA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlBtIZAtDSZXYzhp+zc8sN91xTmmhm29tNcC8ZyXsp9Slf0Q7qc0UCOteEWKMX+6It/TU2d X-Received: by 10.180.109.3 with SMTP id ho3mr89167044wib.39.1419797254104; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:07:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.10.1.68] (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. [82.69.141.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j10sm37785437wjn.23.2014.12.28.12.07.33 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:07:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A062FE.6020500@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:07:26 +0000 From: Steven Hartland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dr Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? References: <54a048f2.45c1c20a.6ffd.ffffe6d7SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <54a048f2.45c1c20a.6ffd.ffffe6d7SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:07:42 -0000 On 28/12/2014 18:15, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > On 28 Dec 2014 at 5:30:23 pm GMT, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > >> On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland wrote: >> >>> On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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! :). >>>>> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes. >>>>> >>>> Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions weren’t aligned! >>>> >>>> As to whether they ought to be aligned by default, this box is on a slightly older version: >>>> >>>> 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul 8 06:37:44 UTC 2014 >>>> >>>> so perhaps that’s been fixed since. >>>> >>>> Many thanks folk for your help! >>>> >>> Would you mind testing to see if this is indeed fixed in 10.1 or current? >>> >>> Would be good to ensure this is actually fixed? >>> >> Grr. I've just updated to 10.1 and now my ata controllers are erroring like crazy! Luckily booting kernel.old works. >> >> We're there issues with 10.1? >> > For reference this previously reported problem is what I am also seeing: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-November/081136.html > > Things were stable and fine under 10.0 but quite quickly borked under 10.1 Is your hardware identical to that in that news post? Regards Steve