[OmniOS-discuss] Debating Swapping 2TB with 4TB drives in RaidZ2 or Create new Vol and clone

Chris Siebenmann cks at cs.toronto.edu
Fri Mar 21 17:04:50 UTC 2014


| I know the drive itself does 512b emulation but i would rather run 4K
| if theres a performance increase!

 What matters for OmniOS is what the drive reports as. If it reports
honestly that it has a 4k physical sector size, ZFS will say 'nope!'
even if the drive will accept 512b reads and writes.

 This is a very unfortunate limitation these days since it's increasingly
hard to get drives that do not have 4k physical sector drives. But that's
life.

	- cks


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