On 09 Dec, 2008, at 14:04, Mark J Musante wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Elaine Ashton wrote:
>
>> If I fdisk 2 disks to have EFI partitions and label them with the  
>> appropriate partition beginning at sector 34 and then give them to  
>> ZFS for a pool, ZFS would appear to change the beginning sector to  
>> 256.
>
> Right.  This is done deliberately so that we don't generate  
> misaligned I/Os.  By switching from 34 to 256, we start on a 128k  
> boundary.  I can dig up the CR if you're curious how this was done.

Thanks! That'd be great as I have an snv_79 system that doesn't  
exhibit this behaviour so I'll assume that this has been added in  
sometime between that release and 101a?

e.
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