Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Bottone, Frank
Awesome! Just when I thought zfs couldn’t get any better... -Original Message- From: larry@sun.com [mailto:larry@sun.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:58 AM To: Bottone, Frank Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Bottone, Frank
Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? If it does, we could manually create a slice properly aligned and set zfs to use it... -- The sender of this email subscribes to Perimeter E-Security's email anti-virus service. This email has been scanned for mal

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Advanced format (4kb sector) drives

2010-03-23 Thread Bottone, Frank
Is there any action required to make ZFS properly align itself when using advanced format drives such as the newer WD Green drives? I prefer to use them by dedicating the whole disk to zfs, rather than using slices, although I would assume if I used a slice I could manually align it. Thanks muc