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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:09:23
Message-Id: 63F56C2B-97D3-4A98-9338-ED1D82FFAB1E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far by Neil Bothwick
1 On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
4 >
5 >> Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am
6 >> now
7 >> suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts
8 >> of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient
9 >> free space (or free time) to repartition them? :)
10 >
11 > With the RAID, you could fail one disk, repartition, re-add it,
12 > rinse and
13 > repeat. But that doesn't take care of the time issue.
14
15 Aren't you thinking of LVM, or something?
16
17 Stroller.

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>