Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:24:58
Message-Id: 201002101224.18448.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:03:51 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote:
4 > > > As for recovery, I always use "sysrescuecd" (http://www.sysresccd.org)
5 > > > and this has Raid and LVM support in it. (Same with the Gentoo-livecds)
6 > >
7 > > sysrescuecd failed me hard two nights ago. 64bit kernel paniced with
8 > > stack corruptions, 32bit kernel took an hour to unpack 300kb from a 20gb
9 > > tar...
10 > >
11 > > it was pathetic...
12 >
13 > Never had a problem with it myself, but I always test rescuediscs semi-
14 > regularly on all my machines, just to be sure. :)
15 >
16 > I'm also paranoid when it comes to backups of my private data.
17
18 because of my backup harddisk (I first copy everything on a seperate disk, then
19 later the important stuff onto tapes), I was able to boot into a pretty actual
20 system and untar from their. And suddenly I was hitting 100mb/sec+ writing
21 speed...