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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:35:10 +0000
From:      krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
To:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs boot on 4k drives in -STABLE
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On 20 February 2011 11:25, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 February 2011 10:55, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 February 2011 02:12, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
>>> On 02/17/11 20:30, krad wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> What is the current state of zfs booting of a 4k aligned drive
>>>> (ashift=3D12)? I have tried the patch in pr153695 but it wont apply
>>>> cleanly to stable as I think it is meant for current. Is one going to
>>>> be made available for STABLE at any point?
>>>
>>> It works fine. Use the gptzfsboot and zfsloader from here and you're
>>> good to go - no patches or anything else required:
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/zfsboot/
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lawrence
>>>
>>
>>
>> thanks for the advice ill give it a go
>>
>
> well the binary versions didnt seem to work. The drive is 4k aligned
> apart from the boot partition. Surely this wouldnt have an affect
> though would it?
>
> # gpart show ad7
> =3D> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A034 =A03907029101 =A0ad7 =A0GPT =A0(1.8T)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A034 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 128 =A0 =A01 =A0freebsd-boot =A0(64=
K)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 162 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 6 =A0 =A0 =A0 - free - =A0(3.0K)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 168 =A0 =A0 6291456 =A0 =A02 =A0freebsd-swap =A0(3.0G)
> =A0 =A0 6291624 =A03900213229 =A0 =A03 =A0freebsd-zfs =A0(1.8T)
> =A03906504853 =A0 =A0 =A0524282 =A0 =A04 =A0freebsd-ufs =A0(256M)
>

after realigning the boot partition it still failed to boot



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