Creating a bootable ZFS disk?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Dec 28 20:30:53 UTC 2014
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Steven Hartland wrote:
>
> On 28/12/2014 19:44, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, 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!
>>
>> Alignment alone should not have fixed it. While misaligned drives give
>> poor performance, they should still work.
>
> Indeed, possibly a bad BIOS?
All too possible. BIOS authoring seems to be what people too bitter to
continue being supervillains or cable TV tech support take up.
For testing the possibly-automatic gpart alignment, gnop might work.
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