Hello Stan, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > As I replied on XFS, there's ZERO reason for putting one partition on a > dedicated mythTV recording drive. And since this is an Advanced Format > drive, you instantly misaligned XFS by creating that partition. None of > the Squeeze partitioning tools understand ADF drives and will all > therefore create a sector misaligned partition, causing serious > performance degradation due to RMW cycles within the drive. I can remember creating a correctly aligned partition about one year ago on a 2 TB drive. I suspect this was with the tools from Squeeze and I know that the logical block size of the drive differed from the physical block size. However, I had to feed this information manually to the partitioning program. Best regards, Claudius -- Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. -- Turgenev http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242
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