On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:32:02PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote:
> This is documented in the ZFS on disk format doc.
Yep, I've been there in the meantime.. ;-)
> Use prtvtoc or format to see the beginning of the slice relative to the
> beginning of the partition. I dunno how you tell the start of
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:21:39PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> #1. Use xxd (or similar) to examine the contents of the raw disk
>
> This relies on knowing what to look for, and how that is aligned to
> the start of the partition and to to metaslab addresses and offsets
> that determine the wr
On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> There's been some talk about alignment lately, both for flash and WD disks.
>
> What's missing, at least from my perspective, is a clear an
> unambiguous test so users can verify that their zfs pools are aligned
> correctly. This should be a
There's been some talk about alignment lately, both for flash and WD disks.
What's missing, at least from my perspective, is a clear an
unambiguous test so users can verify that their zfs pools are aligned
correctly. This should be a test that sees through all the layers of
BIOS and SMI/EFI and z
