Re: misleading ZFS warning

From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:42:38 UTC
For a single disk pool I think you can ignore the warning. I can only imagine the situation of the warning for a raidz setup. 
Maybe others have more insights.
Regards,Ronald

Van: Anthony Pankov <anthony.pankov@yahoo.com>
Datum: 22 juli 2026 17:26
Aan: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
CC: fs@FreeBSD.org
Onderwerp: Re: misleading ZFS warning

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> >  What is underlying pool structure?
> 
>  pool: as1
>  state: ONLINE
> config:
> 
>         NAME                           STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         as1                            ONLINE       0     0     0
>           diskid/DISK-WD-C82MNNSK.eli  ONLINE       0     0     0
> 
> one dedicated GELI-encrtypted HDD.
> 
> GELI info:
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> Geom name: diskid/DISK-WD-C82MNNSK.eli
> State: ACTIVE
> EncryptionAlgorithm: AES-XTS
> KeyLength: 128
> Crypto: accelerated software
> Version: 7
> UsedKey: 0
> Flags: NONE
> KeysAllocated: 1398
> KeysTotal: 1398
> Providers:
> 1. Name: diskid/DISK-WD-C82MNNSK.eli
>    Mediasize: 6001175121920 (5.5T)
>    Sectorsize: 4096
>    Mode: r1w1e1
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> Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 6:12:00 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > What is underlying pool structure?
> > Zraid/mirror/single disk?
> 
> > If zraid, what is the stripesize?
> 
> > Regards,
> > Ronald
> 
> > Van: Anthony Pankov 
> > Datum: 22 juli 2026 11:51
> > Aan: fs@FreeBSD.org
> > Onderwerp: misleading ZFS warning
> 
> >> > > Hello,
> >> > Doing this:
> >> >  zfs create  -b 4096 -o volmode=dev  -V 32G as1/dockerim/dsk.adocker
> >> > I've got
> >> > Warning: volblocksize (4096) is less than the default minimum block size (16384).
> >> To reduce wasted space a volblocksize of 16384 is recommended.
> >> > While ashift=12 for this pool I can't understand am I really do something wrong and there will be "wasted space" or this is a misleading warning.
> >> > Can somebody enlight this?
> >> > -- > Best regards,
> >>  Anthony Pankov                         mailto:anthony.pankov@yahoo.com
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> -- 
> Best regards,
> Anthony
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