On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote: > >> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- >> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- >> GB M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU /sec %CPU >> 50 110.5 81.0 112.8 15.0 62.8 9.0 72.9 48.5 139.7 9.5 144 0.9 >> >> Here, the results aren't much better either... am I not aligning this >> partition correctly? Missing something else? Or... are they both 4K block >> aligned? > > > The alignment doesn't apply to all drives, just the 4k WD's and some ssd's. > > If they were misaligned, you would see a large difference in the tests. A > few points one way or other in these is largely meaningless. > > That being said, if I were you I would set -b 2048(1 MB) as the default, the > amount of space wasted is trivial and your partition will always be > aligned. People following your tutorials may have a variety of different > drives and that setting is safe for all. >
shouldn't it start at 2049? Starting at 2048 means it starts at 2048th logical block which is 512 bytes off from physical block, doesn't it? -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
