freebsd stable - Dec 2014 - Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

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.

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!

Cheers,
Joe
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