Solaris and the new 4K-Sector-Disks (e.g. WDxxEARS) / Part 3

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Solaris and the new 4K-Sector-Disks (e.g. WDxxEARS) / Part 3

For your convenience, you can find the zpool binary mentioned below to create pools with an "ashift" value of 12 here.
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A few months ago I published a modified zpool program to create pools with a higher ASHIFT value, suitable for disks with 4k sectors. I expected the program compiled on s10u8 to be upward compatible. Apparently, it isn't. To compile "zpool" on s10u9, I

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Thanks ALOT for the guide on getting ZFS performance out of WD-EARS drives. Since I'm running Nexenta, I couldn't use your binary directly - so here is a version compiled for NexentaStor3.

http://jgilje.net/div/ncp/zpool
#1 Joakim Gilje (Homepage) on 2010-09-07 10:07
Hi,

thanks a lot for this solution, I've got a bunch of WD20EARS to put to work, but...

is there someone who can provide a zpool compiled for opensolaris nevada 134 and/or openindiana which is at the 147 build level?

TIA.

Maurilio.
#2 Maurilio Longo on 2010-10-29 18:34
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