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 1NeM8P-00041I-36 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:26:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9554E0B97; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f197.google.com (mail-yx0-f197.google.com [209.85.210.197]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FE0E0B97 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe35 with SMTP id 35so5875685yxe.2 for ; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:25:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gJbyqOP0KtRJuCoVGOtnbdqd1RVkDT8zCWVsC3BiQJE=; b=CeFlSdY0+2VBTAcBvTnmk/hXfEg/K3wx/oXCDe0WwCFFggsN8L9wn43fkiV6TH5HFA x+5rRkPW5falvlYT40C+bLaLUTmB5GCPAsnPWz38wjnqhOQw/VbkI2y5V/GSB1rblEdN T5UVeroFYSIWzwBwV6HqCLMSQbHgzLvQKTQvU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lJ8OPJ/clcNChrcqoQOWCR2+yFe+xdN7oAhAUODqcD0ncQZTmL4Kjq3uXmqNmiz31G DNVbpghowDmhrre8vKqNOfwg5szbCMw8JjzfT12vMwEzrm4QWUZv8n//yAqYhX3nu0lT uK7e6FotloPncTIwz84yy/NKmQxOvP58VJOww= Received: by 10.91.51.1 with SMTP id d1mr2172251agk.41.1265606714150; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:25:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.10.5? (c-69-180-205-20.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [69.180.205.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2641706gxk.7.2010.02.07.21.25.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:25:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B6FA05B.7000209@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:25:47 -0500 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100131) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <20100207193947.GB30196@math.princeton.edu> <5bdc1c8b1002071342v6c81cf13gde7bcef72be5017b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002071342v6c81cf13gde7bcef72be5017b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7aae7fbf-37bc-413b-a108-48a346a8bd07 X-Archives-Hash: af4341a86fea7ec52b30cca16283aa62 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: [snip] > OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the I too was wondering why a Toshiba HDD 1.8" MK2431GAH (4kB-sector), 240 GB I've recently obtained was slow: -> time tar xfj portage-latest.tar.bz2 real 16m5.500s user 0m28.535s sys 0m19.785s Following your post I recreated a single partition (reiserfs 3.6) starting at the 64th sector: Disk /dev/sdb: 240.1 GB, 240057409536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29185 cylinders, total 468862128 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe7bf4b8e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 64 468862127 234431032 83 Linux and the time was improved -> time tar xfj portage-latest.tar.bz2 real 2m15.600s user 0m28.156s sys 0m18.933s -- Valmor