From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:10:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c89f71b7b59c40447aecdb366f56686@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaiYYxsUzf70Ffhd3hzsBZcMb5=2yhfSCv5-nJ+_27wYbJKig@mail.gmail.c>
On Mon Oct 3 19:08:49 EDT 2011, slash.9fans@gmail.com wrote:
> > the way to interpret this information is you may use 512
> > byte sectors if you really want to suffer terrible performance
> > (usually 1/3 the normal performance for reasonablly random
> > workloads.)
>
> That doesn't sound tempting at all. I am still within Amazon's return
> window. Can anyone recommend a 2 TB SATA drive that works on our
> favorite operating system out of the box at full speed? If it's quiet
> and cheap, all the better.
>
> > let me think a bit about the correct solutions to this. it's clear
> > to me that we just can't assume 512-byte sectors any more.
>
> I knew Plan 9 is picky about hardware, but a hard disk? *sigh*
relax, it's really just the mbr code and fdisk that don't like a
non 512-byte sector size. in fact, as long as you don't boot from
it, you can use the disk as-is.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-03 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-24 0:20 slash
2011-09-24 8:07 ` David du Colombier
2011-09-24 8:34 ` Steve Simon
2011-09-29 23:54 ` slash
2011-09-30 8:31 ` Richard Miller
2011-09-30 8:54 ` Richard Miller
2011-09-30 9:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-09-30 14:06 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 14:16 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 14:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 10:36 ` slash
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYzXCfB2KbnDzBHTXytrfQqGUCepRg5Aj-c14ZoEz5hHaw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-01 13:51 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:27 ` slash
2011-10-01 16:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 16:23 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 11:28 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 11:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:01 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:05 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:19 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 12:27 ` Richard Miller
[not found] ` <CAOw7k5i3i+w_=pUuFjUCnxH1Tp5U0vh3v7wFUoBddfML9xG+ag@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-04 12:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:30 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] ` <CAOw7k5hGWG16a5fTjtXBEBd2-gt=XnhjEJKFNjdPrB46_6=dBg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-04 12:34 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:05 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:15 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:33 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:52 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 13:05 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 15:56 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 16:42 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 16:45 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 17:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 18:05 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 18:24 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-04 18:29 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-03 23:07 ` slash
2011-10-06 7:35 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-07 10:49 ` slash
2011-10-07 11:15 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-07 13:03 ` Steve Simon
2011-10-10 10:32 ` Peter A. Cejchan
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYya5eq3CoVbbZGqPf91_kMEcbkCQ_8WEL4yakFdenek5g@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-07 13:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-10 2:32 ` slash
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYy36ydHfw=Tg2YC9x9gEW7=MAHF2C6-UVbgr36G-qv=rA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10 3:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-10 10:15 ` slash
[not found] ` <d0c02b8a1e36c9329902a1183192d732@chula.quanstro.>
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYxoHLgMZddGZ4gCPvW-GuqwRYzytXgfezoi+vjUgxx9tg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10 13:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-11 8:51 ` slash
2011-10-11 8:55 ` slash
2011-10-11 15:01 ` slash
2011-10-11 15:36 ` David du Colombier
2011-10-12 19:24 ` slash
2011-10-13 7:07 ` Peter A. Cejchan
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYxsUzf70Ffhd3hzsBZcMb5=2yhfSCv5-nJ+_27wYbJKig@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-03 23:10 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-10-04 0:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 7:58 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 9:52 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 9:34 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-07 7:47 ` [9fans] io patterns erik quanstrom
2011-09-24 8:30 ` [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk Steve Simon
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