Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-02-04 Thread Bryan N Iotti
seemed to work OK, so I'm not > > certain. I wasn't willing to leave it that way to avoid wasting a little > > space. > > > > > > I can't think of any reason that 512B drives wouldn't work fine aligned > > to larger boundaries. The only con

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-02-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
an issue given we're talking pennies per GB. I can't > imagine a performance issue that could result. > > > > It seems to me that the default alignment rules would give less trouble > if the alignment was to the most restrictive requirement. > > > > -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-08 Thread Reginald Beardsley
I think a wiki update is in order. As simple an idea as it is, it was not obvious to me to do that. I'm sure this will come up again. On Wed, 1/8/14, Bryan N Iotti wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-08 Thread Bryan N Iotti
B. I can't > imagine a performance issue that could result. > > It seems to me that the default alignment rules would give less trouble if > the alignment was to the most restrictive requirement. > > -------- > On Mon, 1/6/14, Bryan N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-06 Thread Reginald Beardsley
gine a performance issue that could result. It seems to me that the default alignment rules would give less trouble if the alignment was to the most restrictive requirement. ---- On Mon, 1/6/14, Bryan N Iotti wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-06 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Hi Reginald, Thanks for your reply. In the end, I just booted from a live DVD and plugged that drive in on my laptop using a double asterisk as the sd.conf line and an 8k block size. A test pool create read back ashift=13, which should be fine. Then I used format -e and fdisk to create a singl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-05 Thread Reginald Beardsley
I can't comment on your particular issue which is why I didn't respond earlier. However, I had trouble getting a 3 TB Toshiba USB drive to work properly. I spent a bunch of time reading the code that parses sd.conf, but finally gave up and didn't go further. On reflection I wonder if the pro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-05 Thread Bryan N Iotti
I'm bumping my own message here... ;) Any hints at all? Does it have something to do with being connected to an LSI SAS1064E-based controller? Again, sorry for bumping, but I hate having that disk just lying there, unused... Bryan On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:01:15 +0100 Bryan N Iotti wrote:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-03 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Hi all, I recently acquired a consumer 128 GB SanDisk SATA SSD to replace my root pool disks. I anticipated having to enter the VID and PID into sd.conf as with other 4K or higher drives. Unfortunately, no matter what I enter there, the drive retains the 512 byte block size and ashift remains