Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

[Steven Hartland]

On 28/12/2014 20:07, Steven Hartland wrote:
>
> 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:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> For reference this previously reported problem is what I am also seeing:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-November/081136.html 
>>
>>
>> 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?
>
I have an idea of something that might help if the above is true can you 
please link to the contents of a verbose boot and pciconf -v -l.

     Regards
     Steve