X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0-r929098 (2010-03-30) on oss.sgi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.4.0-r929098 Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o6NFPbX1208053 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:25:38 -0500 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1279899335-384d026a0000-NocioJ X-Barracuda-URL: http://cuda.sgi.com:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 2FC51132D6AE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id QgUe0qiYvlLdSOG5 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harpe.intellique.com (unknown [82.225.196.72]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270A94C817B; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:38 +0200 From: Emmanuel Florac To: Khelben Blackstaff Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: 4k sector drives Subject: Re: 4k sector drives Message-ID: <20100723172838.3b40a745@harpe.intellique.com> In-Reply-To: <201007231802.11491.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> References: <201007231802.11491.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> Organization: Intellique X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Barracuda-Connect: smtp4-g21.free.fr[212.27.42.4] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1279899339 X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.0000 1.0000 -2.0210 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by cuda.sgi.com at sgi.com X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: -2.02 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=-2.02 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=2.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=2.1 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.35888 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0300 Khelben Blackstaff =E9crivait: > It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned > partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar > output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the > shell prompt returns) Extracting a linux tarball creates lots of very small files, so it is expected to perform very badly on unaligned partitions. But I suppose that copying the tarball itself to the disk could be only slightly slower than normal. --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------