ashift and SSDs
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:47 amI was reading up on sector sizes and SSDs and saw quite a few suggestions that the whole concept of sectors is mostly a compatibility feature on those drives, as the host expects them. Exactly what I suspected.
That begs the question how one should set `ashift` when creating a new pool on an SSD, esp. on the (rare?) ones that claim to be 512/4096.
If the drive actually works with much larger sectors, should you adjust ashift to that size? And how to figure out what that size might be?
That begs the question how one should set `ashift` when creating a new pool on an SSD, esp. on the (rare?) ones that claim to be 512/4096.
If the drive actually works with much larger sectors, should you adjust ashift to that size? And how to figure out what that size might be?