[email protected] (Jeff Rizzo) writes:
>OK, I can seemingly confirm it's a sector/block size issue; when I copy
>the zvol to a plain ("raw") file, it boots normally.
That would suggest that your zvol has an incompatible sector size.
>I tried zvols with volblocksize=512 and 4k (the original is 16k), but
volblocksize isn't the right metric, that's more a "cluster size"
that determines space allocation.
# zfs get volblocksize tank/myvol
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
tank/myvol volblocksize 8K -
# dkctl /dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/myvol getgeometry
/dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/myvol: 214748364800 bytes in 52428800 blocks of 4096 bytes
N.B. I just added the getgeometry command to dkctl. Another method
is to abuse the gpt tool in verbose mode:
# gpt -v show /dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/myvol
/dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/myvol: mediasize=214748364800; sectorsize=4096;
blocks=52428800
/dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/myvol: MBR not found at sector 0
GPT not found, displaying data from MBR.
start size index contents
0 52428800 Unused
