Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs

Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs by EwanToo on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:44PM (#8627474)

For those who wonder why, this seems to be a decent explanation of the issue:

So you can have ZFS pools with 4K blocks, it's just if you've chosen 512-bytes at the start, you're going to struggle

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Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs by protomyth on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @08:11PM (#8627575)

Doesn't the current install of FreeBSD default to 4k blocks even on 512-byte drives?

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Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs by Freaky on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:35AM (#8629227)

No. There is a vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift sysctl you can poke now instead of messing about with gnop, but it still defaults to 9 (512b).

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Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs by tw04 on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:17PM (#8627848)

Yes. As do all of the illumos derived builds.

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Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs by kdavyd on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @11:20PM (#8628246)

No they don't. They create the pool based on the ashift that the drives report, unless you override it at pool creation.

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Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs by DiabloD3 on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @10:33PM (#8628084)

I think ZoL does 4k by default now as well.

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