On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
The question was relative to some older boxes running S10 and not planning
to upgrade the OS, keeping them alive as long as possible...
Recent Solaris 10 kernel patches are addressing drives with 4k
sectors. It seems that Solaris 10 wi
You wrote:
> 2012-07-23 18:37, Anonymous wrote:
> > Really, it would be so helpful to know which drives we can buy with
> > confidence and which should be avoided...is there any way to know from the
> > manufacturers web sites or do you have to actually buy one and see what it
> > does? Thanks to
2012-07-23 18:37, Anonymous wrote:
Really, it would be so helpful to know which drives we can buy with
confidence and which should be avoided...is there any way to know from the
manufacturers web sites or do you have to actually buy one and see what it
does? Thanks to everyone for the info.
I t
"Hans J. Albertsson" wrote:
> I think the problem is with disks that are 4k organised, but report
> their blocksize as 512.
>
> If the disk reports it's blocksize correctly as 4096, then ZFS should
> not have a problem.
> At least my 2TB Seagate Barracuda disks seemed to report their
> blocks
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
wrote:
> I think the problem is with disks that are 4k organised, but report their
> blocksize as 512.
>
> If the disk reports it's blocksize correctly as 4096, then ZFS should not
> have a problem.
> At least my 2TB Seagate Barracuda disks seeme
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:29:38PM +0200, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> I think the problem is with disks that are 4k organised, but report
> their blocksize as 512.
>
> If the disk reports it's blocksize correctly as 4096, then ZFS should
> not have a problem.
> At least my 2TB Seagate Barracuda
On 2012-07-19 14:00, zfs-discuss-requ...@opensolaris.org wrote:
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:44:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dave U. Random
To:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: [zfs-discuss] Question on 4k sectors
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Hi. Is the problem with ZFS supporting 4k sectors or is the problem mixing
512 byte and 4k sector disks in one pool, or something else? I have seen
alot of discussion on the 4k issue but I haven't understood what the actual
problem ZFS has with 4k sectors is. It's getting harder and harder to find
