Hi Roel,
> If i remember well this 2k sector problem has been discussed last week on
> this mailinglist.
>
> I am very interested in how do use these drives since i want to buy some as
> well.
>
After my struggles of last week to get the pool to be created with ashift=12 I
just finished th
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>>> Will try tomorrow after a reboot, can't do a reboot right now.
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>>
>> Reboot doesn't change anything. zpool is still created with ashift=9
>> So either the usage of sd.conf is not in 151_a5, or the VID/PID are
>> different from what you suggested above.
>> How can I find or read
>
>>> After studying all the information about 4K-disks I figured out that to get
>>> more space in my server I need to create a new pool, consisting of 4K-disks
>>> and then moving everything from the old 512-byte pool to the new one.
>>> So far, so good. Everything is connected and detected c
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your quick reply!
>> After studying all the information about 4K-disks I figured out that to get
>> more space in my server I need to create a new pool, consisting of 4K-disks
>> and then moving everything from the old 512-byte pool to the new one.
>> So far, so good. Ev
Dear all,
After studying all the information about 4K-disks I figured out that to get
more space in my server I need to create a new pool, consisting of 4K-disks and
then moving everything from the old 512-byte pool to the new one.
So far, so good. Everything is connected and detected correctly
up is VERY hungry, and gets VERY cranky when it can't eat.
>
> There's a good article that breaks down things a bit better than I have if
> you want to look into it further:
> http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2011/07/zfs-dedupe-or-not-dedupe
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012
> I have both the sparsebundle size and the ZFS FS set. So the FS was created
> with a quota of 300GB and the sparsebundle then created in there with
> 300GB.
>
OK, thanks for the tip. I'll give it a go.
> Unless you're backing up multiple Macs, don't use dedup, the performance
> hit you'll tak
Hi all,
I'm reorganizing my Home NAS (somehow it got full faster than I planned…),
which I'm using for both general purpose storage and time machine backups. My
server is running openindiana 151_a5 with ZFS as filesystem and netatalk as
AFP-server.
I'm wondering how others are limiting time m
