> Chris, you misunderstand RMW. Your jumper setting does not get around > it. Bliss-based ignorance.
I understand RMW perfectly well, thank you. You are not paying attention, apparently. There are two issues. 1. There is a performance penalty for writes of < 4K due to RMW. But, as the very article you quoted notes, this isn't much of a problem since most I/Os are 4K anyway. (In fact, it's my understanding that -all- NTFS writes are 4K, since that's the NTFS cluster size--but I haven't been able to find confirmation of that this morning.) 2. RMW comes heavily into play when an I/O straddles two 4K sectors. This is problem for XP because it places the first sector of the primary partition at sector 63, which would mean that -all- 4K I/Os straddle sectors. But what you do not seem to understand is that either the jumper settings or the disk utility fix this permanently by PHYSICALLY MOVING the first sector to sector 64. This issue goes away, completely and forever. It is a dead issue. It has gone to join the choir eternal. So, contrary to your assertion, the jumper settings do indeed "get around it", and the "bliss-based ignorance" is not on this end of the conversation. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
