Re: fdisk(8) vs gpart(8), and gnop


On 06/01/14 07:59, Mark Felder wrote:
> On May 31, 2014, at 20:57, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's a sysctl where you can set the minimum ashift for zfs. Then you
>> never need to use gnop.
>>
>> I believe it's part of 10.0?
> I've not seen this yet. What we need is to port the ability to set ashift at pool creation time:
>
> $ zpool create -o ashift=12 tank mirror disk1 disk2 mirror disk3 disk4
>
> I believe the Linux zfs port has this functionality now, but we still do not.
>
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ashift=12 seems harmless on 512-byte disks, so maybe also making that 
the default globally unless sector size is even larger is a good idea.
-Nathan
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