>Changing the sector size (if it's possible at all) would require a >reformat of the drive.
The WD drives only support a 4K sector but they pretend to have 512byte sectors. I don't think they need to format the drive when changing to 4K sectors. A non-aligned write requires a read-modify-write operation and that makes the file slower. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
