[CentOS] 4kB sector size HDDs

Hello again. Do any of you have one of the 'new' HDDs with 4kB Sectors currently in use? I would upgrade to the 4kB disks but I don't know if this might be problematic as I intend to use ZFS w/ RAIDz or at least a classic RAID6. How might this affect performance under 5.5 and how do I go about

Re: [CentOS] 4kB sector size HDDs

how do I go about setting up the alignment of the partitions I use? If you use one large partition it's easy: you just create the partition leaving 1 meg of free space before the partition. This causes the partition to start at sector 2048, which is a number that 4096 is divisible by. Newer

Re: [CentOS] 4kB sector size HDDs

--On Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:16:36 AM +0200 Dawid Horacio Golebiewski dawid.golebiew...@tu-harburg.de wrote: Do any of you have one of the 'new' HDDs with 4kB Sectors currently in use? I have them in use, and set up the partitions manually before installing the OS. This is the relevent