> On Mar 21, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> > wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Richard Elling wrote: >>> >>> Adding the ashift argument to zpool was discussed every few years and so >>> far was always deemed not enterprisey enough for the Solaris heritage, so >>> the setup to tweak sd driver reports and properly rely on that layer was >>> pushed instead. >> >> The issue is that once a drive model lies, then the Solaris approach is to >> encode >> the lie into a whitelist, so that the lie is always handled properly. The >> whitelist is in the >> sd.conf file. > > Does this approach require that Illumos users only use drive hardware much > older than the version of Illumos they happen running since outdated > whitelist won't know about the new lies?
Forunately, lies are becoming less common. But this raises a good point: if your drive doesn't lie, then you don't need to workaround. > > What if a user is using classic drives but wants to be prepared to install > newer drives which require ashift=12? See the bazillion other posts on this topic. -- richard > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
