On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:16:37 -0600, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!
> Hmm, wasn't the issues with 3T drives, that they internally use
> 4K blocks and emulate 512 and that therefore 8 block alignments
> are an performance issue ?
Hi guys,
I'd just like to jump on this train real quick since I have a related
question with alignment.
I've been building new Virtual Machine templates lately because I recently
learned that our SAN which we access over iSCSI uses 64K blocks and the
default FreeBSD install starts a filesystem on sector 63 (512K sectors).
This would be misaligned for most I/O transactions. As a result, I updated
our internal documentation for FreeBSD standards to be 64K aligned by
manually installing FreeBSD with GPT and making the FreeBSD-boot partition
64K in size:
Fixit# gpart create -s gpt da0
Fixit# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64K da0
Fixit# gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 2G -b 2048 da0
Fixit# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da0
Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptboot -i 1 da0
At the time, the examples I found used -s 64K for the freebsd-boot
partition which starts the next partition/filesystem on the next 64K block
which would be aligned for our purposes. However, I have been seeing -s
1024K or larger which is also 64K aligned, but just larger. Am I shooting
myself in the foot by not going ahead and aligning with -s 1024K or -s
2048K right now?
Thanks for your opinions,
Mark
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