From: Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>
To: Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mixing 512-byte sector, and 4096-byte sector drives
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:53:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA90E3E.7050602@kieser.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a329d911003221711r153693f6jdaec0b4f4b3d634@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/22/2010 5:11 PM, Wil Reichert wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Peter Kieser<peter@kieser.ca> wrote:
>> Do I need to set the "XP" jumper on pins 7-8 to play nicely with the other
>> 512-byte sector drives in my array, or will mdraid be okay with the
>> 4096-byte sector drive? Will there be a performance penalty adding the drive
>> to my array?
>>
> Did you create your RAID on the device or on a partition? If its on
> the entire device then you should be fine, tho this might depend on
> which metadata format you are using& where its located on the disc
> (not sure how the metadata effects data alignment).
>
I created the RAID directly on the device, I have replaced the drive and
the new 4096-byte drive seems to be playing nicely with the other drives
in the array after the resync completed.
-Peter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-22 23:39 Mixing 512-byte sector, and 4096-byte sector drives Peter Kieser
2010-03-23 0:11 ` Wil Reichert
2010-03-23 18:53 ` Peter Kieser [this message]
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