I think you can fool a recent Illumos kernel into thinking a 4k disk is 512
(incurring a performance hit for that disk, and therefore the vdev and
pool, but to save a raidz1, it might be worth it):
http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks , see
"Overriding the Physical
Well this is a new one
Illumos/Openindiana let me add a device as a hot spare that evidently has a
different sector alignment than all of the other drives in the array.
So now I'm at the point that I /need/ a hot spare and it doesn't look like
I have it.
And, worse, the other spares I have a
