Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 03:26:35 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Jeff Chan" <jeffc@supranet.net>, <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS snapshot restore not quite working; missing steps? Message-ID: <C791C5E9A90A4D7BB68E39222DC5ABE7@multiplay.co.uk> References: <1129127016.20140517185154@supranet.net> <1198503903.20140518030907@supranet.net> <F8DBD16F6101498A98AA04D29C1FD596@multiplay.co.uk> <236659679.20140518035326@supranet.net> <3E3DCC6DED864A519B02A398B92D1994@multiplay.co.uk> <1879018434.20140519191844@supranet.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Chan" <jeffc@supranet.net> > Update: using the most current FreeBSD 9.0 - 9.2 ZFS instructions > on the wiki page for the initial configuration caused the booting > to ZFS to work: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE > > including the GNOP trick, since these drives are "advanced format" and > greater than 2TB size, and the -a 4k alignment to 4k sectors when > creating the ZFS partitions. On later versions you can set vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift=12 to achieve the same thing as the GNOP trick, but thats only needed if your drive doesn't have a 4k quirk in our codebase. Regards Steve
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