From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NeecG-00086T-6J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:10:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C455DE1338 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20AAE1227 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6417855C7FF for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:27:59 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:27:57 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Message-ID: <20100209002757.0ec74d01@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a1002081234n97b4b5apa88e262dc53b3d9a@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <20100207193947.GB30196@math.princeton.edu> <5bdc1c8b1002071342v6c81cf13gde7bcef72be5017b@mail.gmail.com> <20100208020850.GA21754@math.princeton.edu> <5bdc1c8b1002080910p37f78fdch99827fab37be32cb@mail.gmail.com> <4B705D6B.1090803@gmail.com> <58965d8a1002081234n97b4b5apa88e262dc53b3d9a@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs7 (GTK+ 2.18.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/0d+6GV+=8PThz9qBA/xs=jW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 273b8d69-a1d0-4a53-a0b4-fe3e47bdfd08 X-Archives-Hash: 12c66e16b902c9fb25c3eb313f48ac12 --Sig_/0d+6GV+=8PThz9qBA/xs=jW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now > suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts > of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient > free space (or free time) to repartition them? :) With the RAID, you could fail one disk, repartition, re-add it, rinse and repeat. But that doesn't take care of the time issue. > I am really curious > if there are any gains to be made on my own system... Me too, so post back after you've done it ;-) --=20 Neil Bothwick Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. --Sig_/0d+6GV+=8PThz9qBA/xs=jW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktwrA0ACgkQum4al0N1GQPg1QCePgwuNMAzAUnVH2s3q2UJakE1 3gIAnjLznKbXDk+x1dJV4vzaROzOWS8e =oOwi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0d+6GV+=8PThz9qBA/xs=jW--