If we're making a wishlist, something more immediate (and surely easy to implement) would be a command line option for zpool create to change the ashift value. This allows use of "Advanced Format" drives which have 4KB internal sector size, and export them (incorrectly, for Windows XP) as 512B blocks.
eg zpool create -o ashift=12 tank c1t0d0 c1t1d0 This would provide immediate benefit to anyone wanting to use modern cheap hard drives, where the user is compus enough to know what the system can't. A more advanced option would be timing of read/write performance of increasing block sizes (and offsets, if needed) in order to identify what the physical sector size is (and its alignment). But purely manual is a good start. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
