Re: 4k-sector drives

2013-08-03 Thread David Vasek
On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Robert wrote: While some disks emulate their 4k sectors as 512b, some don't. E.g., I have a WD "My Book 1140" 3TB external USB disk, which reports 4k. Softraid doesn't work with it, I have to use vnd instead (for encryption). Some new WD My Book models alegedly allow you t

Re: Sector offset values for softraid volumes

2013-08-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/02/13 12:06, Erling Westenvik wrote: ... > The space wasted on large disks is negligible but I would really like to > know at which level the 64 sector offset may be set to 0. yes. two offsets, 128 sectors * 0.5k/sector = 64k. Now, I probably appreciate the value of 64k more than most peop

Re: Compilers in OpenBSD

2013-08-03 Thread James Osborn
>A recent discussion (``Default software in the base'') suggests using >Clang/LLVM as the system compiler in OpenBSD in the short-term future. >This discussion hasn't really gone anywhere, yet I thought I could >waste bandwidth with my thoughts as the current de-facto compiler >maintainer in OpenBS