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On Tuesday 15 March 2011 15:26:44 James wrote: |
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> Bill Kenworthy <billk <at> iinet.net.au> writes: |
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> > I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding |
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> > terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives. |
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> Hmmmm, I've been contemplating btrfs on some new installs |
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> with the eventual goal of a CEPH network file system, on top |
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> of ext4 and/or btrfs. Is this issue just with the drivers, or |
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> related to btrfs too? |
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> How is btrfs , from the "driver's seat"? |
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> Does this aberration you detail, extend to the Green Seagate 2T drives? |
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> > I just saw on the mythtv list about the sector size problem these drives |
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> Can you give a precise link to this list or can I follow it (read only) |
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> via net news? (if so what is the news group name)? |
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> I'd like to read up on this issue, as I have several gentoo installs |
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> (very soon) that will have RAID1 using (2) ST 2T green drives. |
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> Alternative RAID configs and performance/reliability results is |
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> also of keen interest to many; so thanks for posting about these |
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> issues. |
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just google for 4k sectors and or adf drives. There is plenty of material out |
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there. |
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And you don't need parted. You can do the correct alignment with good old |
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fdisk. |
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