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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  3 Oct 2011 19:10:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk
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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