ZFS raidz and 4k sector disks

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Fri Apr 9 08:28:38 UTC 2010


on 08/04/2010 16:55 Alexey Tarasov said the following:
> Hello.
> 
> I've tried all methods and realized that unfortunately the only working
> method is gnop. So you can't use these disks for ZFS at all now.

Why?  And what are you actually trying to do?
My understanding was that even with 512-byte sectors ZFS still aligns its
on-disk data with > 4K alignment.
Do you see otherwise?  What problem do you have?

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Andriy Gapon


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