On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: Steve Goldthorpe [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:23 PM >> >> No matter what I try I can't seem to get a 4K aligned root pool using the >> OpenIndiana installer (oi151-a7 live image). >> I'm using ESXi using 4K aligned disks. > > You shouldn't put ESX volumes in rpool. Create a separate pool - if > necessary first partition your disk - and put the volumes into the second > pool. > > If you partition your disk, you should be aware that zfs only enables the > disk hardware write-back cache for systems where zfs has control of the whole > disk. So you might have to script something with "format" to enable the disk > cache on those devices. The write-back cache is not disabled. So if it is enabled by VMware by default, then it remains enabled. -- richard -- [email protected] +1-760-896-4422 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
