On 28/12/2014 17:30, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:> > On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>> >>>>> I only have 'zfs_load=?YES?? in my /boot/loader.conf. I?m hoping the problem is that I missed the ?-a4k? on the ?gpart add?. I?m starting again and will report back whether it now works or not! :). >>>> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes. >>>> >>> Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions weren?t aligned! >>> >>> As to whether they ought to be aligned by default, this box is on a slightly older version: >>> >>> 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul 8 06:37:44 UTC 2014 >>> >>> so perhaps that?s been fixed since. >>> >>> Many thanks folk for your help! >>> >> Would you mind testing to see if this is indeed fixed in 10.1 or current? >> >> Would be good to ensure this is actually fixed? >> > Grr. I've just updated to 10.1 and now my ata controllers are erroring like crazy! Luckily booting kernel.old works. > > We're there issues with 10.1? >We've had some people report issues with AHCI, but no one in the team has been able to reproduce. Do you have any more details? Regards Steve