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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: 4K drives, sectsz=512, bsize=4096
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:56:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008300956.21264@zmi.at> (raw)


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I have 2x 2TB 4K sector drives, joined with LVM to RAID-0. On top of 
that, I created an XFS, but that has sectsz=512.

Will there be any real difference if I re-format with sectsz=4096? 
AFAIK, XFS will do I/O based on block size, so the sector size doesn't 
do any harm. Is that correct?

A question for LVM: Is there anything I need to tell to LVM to let it 
know that those are 4K sector drives and I/O should be aligned to that? 
Drives are reported as 512b sectors, but really are 4K. There seems to 
be no way to instruct the kernel to see those drives as 4K drives.

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-30  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30  7:56 Michael Monnerie [this message]
2010-08-31 21:01 ` 4K drives, sectsz=512, bsize=4096 Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 21:16   ` Eric Sandeen
2010-08-31 22:07     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 22:15       ` Eric Sandeen
2010-08-31 23:12         ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 22:34       ` Nathan Scott
2010-09-01  5:35         ` Gim Leong Chin
2010-09-01  5:59           ` Nathan Scott
2010-09-01  7:38           ` Michael Monnerie
2010-09-01 10:13             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-01 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig

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