getting to 4K disk blocks in ZFS

[Borja Marcos]

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On Sep 11, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Karl Denninger wrote:

It works great until you start replacing older disks with new, larger ones and find out that the new ones are 4k where the old ones were not.....

Yes, I agree. The problem is, it can become a time bomb especially for small, modest installations. You build a small server (and maybe you don't have the resources for a full migration readily available) and, one day, two years in the future, one of the disks breaks. You buy a new one, replace, and your performance gets worse.

Or, anyway, the timebombs are already in place. As far as I know most new disks sold nowadays are "advanced format".





Borja.

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