On 2012-10-29 03:58, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> If you're truly using 4096-byte sectors disks -- specifically MECHANICAL
> hard disks (MHDDs) -- use of 4KByte alignment is fine.
>
> But if you ever plan on using an SSD the future, you need to align
> things to 1MBytes or 2MBytes.
>
> This is why
On 2012-10-27 16:01, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>
>> I ended up just ignoring the not aligned warning from the "gpart add -t
>> freebsd" and went on to add the freebsd-swap and freebsd-ufs partitions with
>> "-a 4k" option.
>>
>> Do you think I'm aligned
(I won't be responding to any public or private mails relating to this
topic after this point, just as an FYI)
Just a reminder for readers:
If you're truly using 4096-byte sectors disks -- specifically MECHANICAL
hard disks (MHDDs) -- use of 4KByte alignment is fine.
But if you ever plan on usi
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
I ended up just ignoring the not aligned warning from the "gpart add -t freebsd" and went
on to add the freebsd-swap and freebsd-ufs partitions with "-a 4k" option.
Do you think I'm aligned?
...
=>63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T)
On 2012-10-27 14:41, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>
>> On 2012-10-23 17:46, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>> orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd -a 4k mirror/gm0
>> mirror/gm0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 409
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
On 2012-10-23 17:46, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
To create a swap and then a root that fills the rest of the disk, must the swap
be created first, like this:
gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4k -s 4g mirror/g
On 2012-10-23 17:46, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>> To create a swap and then a root that fills the rest of the disk, must the
>> swap be created first, like this:
>>
>> gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4k -s 4g mirror/gm0s1
>> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k
On 2012.10.24 22:10, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> On 2012.10.21 17:44, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>> On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>>>
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
> Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to
On 2012.10.21 17:44, free...@johnea.net wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of
creating a full disk geom m
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
In recent years I've just been creating a swap partition and one big root
partition. It just seems as soon as I make all the traditional partitions, one
runs out of room.
Do you feel there are any major disadvantages of this approach?
Backup of
On 2012-10-22 15:54, Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>
>> On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>>>
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
> Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement t
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of
creating a full disk geom mirror while als
On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating a
full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table?
I'm curious about
On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating a
full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table?
I'm curious about
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating a
full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table?
I'm curious about what this is about. Could you refer me to an
Hi,
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
> Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating
> a full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table?
I'm curious about what this is about. Could you refer me to an article
or a discussion where this iss
Hello,
Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating a
full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table?
Is the fix for this a near term thing, or something in the farther future?
Thanks for any insight!
johnea
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