ATA 4K sector issues

Thiago Damas tdamas at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 18:46:52 UTC 2010


  I tested now with 1Mb (2048 blocks) at the begining of disk, and same
behaviour: slow write speed and high disk latency.


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Thiago Damas <tdamas at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I'll try tomorrow more zfs tests, with 1M alignment on begining of disk.
>   But I also remember that zfs block size its 128k, but metadata can be of
> dynamic size. And we can use compressed files too.
>   There is a sysctl, md_compress, that I turned out in my tests, but not
> working as expected.
>   Why using gnop -S 4096 works well?
>
> Thiago
>
>


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