On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:04:39AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > > I'm looking into a clean, permanent solution for WD Green drives that > > use 4096-byte physical sectors. To summarize the information I've > > collected so far: > > There is attempt to look from another side - is it really needed? > Captain Obvious says that if one have a new disk, it's easy to format > it properly - i.e. not xxx*16*63 but aligned on 4KB boundary. For > example, set up geometry xxx*64*32 for all new disks and align GPT > partitions on 1MB boundary. As soon as FS requests in FreeBSD are no > less than 4KB in size, this would satisfy any disk. > > If 4KB sectors are our future for a few next years, this shall be > implemented anyway...
Also, we have geom_cache for performance-sensetive setups anyway :-) Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
