Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

[Steven Hartland]

On 28/12/2014 18:15, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On 28 Dec 2014 at 5:30:23 pm GMT, Dr Josef Karthauser <joe at karthauser.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
>>>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
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>>>>> 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:
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>>>>     10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul  8 06:37:44 UTC 2014
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>>>> so perhaps that’s been fixed since.
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>>>> Many thanks folk for your help!
>>>>
>>> Would you mind testing to see if this is indeed fixed in 10.1 or current?
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>>> 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.
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>> We're there issues with 10.1?
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> For reference this previously reported problem is what I am also seeing:
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-November/081136.html
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> Things were stable and fine under 10.0 but quite quickly borked under 10.1
Is your hardware identical to that in that news post?

     Regards
     Steve