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Subject: Re: fdisk(8) vs gpart(8), and gnop
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On May 31, 2014, at 20:57, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a sysctl where you can set the minimum ashift for zfs. Then you
> never need to use gnop.
>=20
> I believe it's part of 10.0?

I've not seen this yet. What we need is to port the ability to set =
ashift at pool creation time:

$ zpool create -o ashift=3D12 tank mirror disk1 disk2 mirror disk3 disk4

I believe the Linux zfs port has this functionality now, but we still do =
not.