ZFS snapshot restore not quite working; missing steps?

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Chan" <jeffc at 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