Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-27 Thread taemun
I'm not entirely convinced there is no problem here I had a WD EADS 1.5TB die, the warranty replacement drive was a EARS. So, first foray into 4k sectors. I had 8x EADS in a raidz set, had replaced the broken one with a 1.5TB Seagate 7200rpm - which was obviously faster. Just replacing back,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-27 Thread Svein Skogen
On 27.03.2010 11:01, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:47:26PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:57:31PM -0700, Darren Mackay wrote: >>> not sure if 32bit BSD supports 48bit LBA >> >> Solaris is the only otherwise-modern OS with this daft limitation. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:47:26PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:57:31PM -0700, Darren Mackay wrote: > > not sure if 32bit BSD supports 48bit LBA > > Solaris is the only otherwise-modern OS with this daft limitation. Ok, it's not due to LBA48, but the 1Tb limitation i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:57:31PM -0700, Darren Mackay wrote: > not sure if 32bit BSD supports 48bit LBA Solaris is the only otherwise-modern OS with this daft limitation. -- Dan. pgpE9xlpyJDRZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
> It would be nice if the 32bit osol kernel support > 48bit LBA Is already supported, for may years (otherwise disks with a capacity >= 128GB could not be used with Solaris) ... > (similar to linux, not sure if 32bit BSD > supports 48bit LBA ), then the drive would probably > work - perhaps late

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Darren Mackay
For the time being, the EARS series of drives actually present 512 byte sectors to the o/s through emulation in firmware. The drive I tested was WD20EARS (2TB WD Caviar Green Advanced Format drives): MDL: WD20EARS-00S81 DATE: 29 DEC 2009 DCM: HBRNHT2BB DCX: 6019S1W87 LBA: 3907029168 The LBA abo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Svein Skogen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26.03.2010 16:55, Bottone, Frank wrote: >> Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? >> >> >> >> If it does, we could manually create a slice properly ali

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Bottone, Frank
Awesome! Just when I thought zfs couldn’t get any better... -Original Message- From: larry@sun.com [mailto:larry@sun.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:58 AM To: Bottone, Frank Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 16:55, Bottone, Frank wrote: > Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? > > > > If it does, we could manually create a slice properly aligned and set > zfs to use it? A real simple patch would be to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Larry Liu
Yes, it does. Bottone, Frank 写道: Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? If it does, we could manually create a slice properly aligned and set zfs to use it… -- The sender of this email subscribes to Perimeter E-Security's email anti-virus service. T

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Bottone, Frank
Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? If it does, we could manually create a slice properly aligned and set zfs to use it... -- The sender of this email subscribes to Perimeter E-Security's email anti-virus service. This email has been scanned for mal