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 1NeqmK-00064y-4P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:09:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B515BE105A for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f216.google.com (mail-fx0-f216.google.com [209.85.220.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68606E0C0A for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so6904159fxm.26 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:35:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=sK9gYn7mPCbUAyfKUfsLcsKIpICbKPWP5+9JmF1/zow=; b=aKqMoEOh5DYaWMKaccG6kDA3/MCA7REoRcS8T+Duv9LkUnZ6j+P0LDAaqwGKed5VWT P0OHpGN1sOtR5wNq6ZmtV5zLe9+9MOQFXsFwtw/PjJ5n5jiUkL8fs+mhAbfLy5nEYzkU NHzZAVkKcgPmmNWt55V/i7yIQGRx96frMwOVs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=RpiXXqdRuhhbEB696DZvEL6EMBgFKLlApHbcQo8BB8PmUlFzpJkg1hPW3WPhQJBoT2 f4/73qBIOkhqsHEyDiLZrp5NCC6ZM1ISYQfpWUezqrxX7jgoEnGitNxiveUO9Wvb7E+w 3rTPlCAKD/n0vyRZ+ND788+IHzVU36QCcfwnw= Received: by 10.102.202.7 with SMTP id z7mr2595857muf.92.1265722552649; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y6sm514910mug.31.2010.02.09.05.35.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:35:51 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:35:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.3.95; x86_64; ; ) References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <20100209002757.0ec74d01@digimed.co.uk> <63F56C2B-97D3-4A98-9338-ED1D82FFAB1E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <63F56C2B-97D3-4A98-9338-ED1D82FFAB1E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002091435.41105.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bf3e2b3a-16c5-4c64-8672-eb28364ca07d X-Archives-Hash: a95cb4adea8965ea26a38743dcf1c721 On Dienstag 09 Februar 2010, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > 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. > > Aren't you thinking of LVM, or something? > > Stroller. no