Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
    
> On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >>
> >>> I only have 'zfs_load=?YES?? in my /boot/loader.conf. I?m hoping the problem is that I missed the ?-a4k? on the ?gpart add?. I?m starting again and will report back whether it now works or not! :).
> >> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes.
> >>
> > Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions weren’t aligned!
> >
> > As to whether they ought to be aligned by default, this box is on a slightly older version:
> >
> >    10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul  8 06:37:44 UTC 2014
> >
> > so perhaps that’s been fixed since.
> >
> > Many thanks folk for your help!
> >
> Would you mind testing to see if this is indeed fixed in 10.1 or current?
> 
> Would be good to ensure this is actually fixed?
> 

Grr. I've just updated to 10.1 and now my ata controllers are erroring like crazy! Luckily booting kernel.old works.

We're there issues with 10.1? 

Joe