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Hi Fred. <br>
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Definitely, the ashift parameter has been around on the illumos
for a couple of years. <br>
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thanks,<br>
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Geoff <br>
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On 16-03-20 05:21 PM, Fred Liu wrote:<br>
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<div>The ashift parameter doesn't apply in illumos if my memory
serves me well. It was introduced by ZoL.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 1:37 PM -0700,
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<div class="PlainText">Quick, question.<br>
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Any performance differences between 4Kn and 512e with
ashift=12?<br>
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I am thinking there should not be, since they will both write
the full <br>
4K block size.<br>
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The workload will be virtual machines using a zvol.<br>
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thanks,<br>
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Geoff<br>
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