Advanced Format drives + RAID5 + LVM + EXT4 = migraine

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jake Peavy <djstunks at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have a feeling my array should perform much better than this and it's
> probably because I haven't taken the 4k sector size into account and I'm
> bleeding performance.
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> Can anyone comment?  If I need to take the 4k sector size into account,
> where should I do so?  With partitions?  In pvcreate?  Some other place?  Or
> multiple places?
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/

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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada