Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives 258
Theovon writes "We've seen a few stories recently about the new Western Digital Green drives. According to WD, their new 4096-byte sector drives are problematic for Windows XP users but not Linux or most other OSes. Linux users should not be complacent about this, because not all the Linux tools like fdisk have caught up. The result is a reduction in write throughput by a factor of 3.3 across the board (a 230% overhead) when 4096-byte clusters are misaligned to 4096-byte physical sectors by one or more 512-byte logical sectors. The author does some benchmarks to demonstrate this. Also, from the comments on the article, it appears that even parted is not ready, since by default it aligns to 'cylinder' boundaries, which are not physical cylinder boundaries and are multiples of 63."
first misaligned post (Score:2, Funny)
damnit, obviously since this is not technically the 'first post', my web browser must be misaligned by a post
partition table (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Set 32 sectors per track (Score:2, Funny)
I recommend you visit Microsoft [microsoft.com] and have a look at their "Windows" operating system. The concept of a terminal doesn't run nearly as deep in it as it does in Linux. The same goes for the concept of security. Overall, it is kind of a poorly reinvented UNIX, but I think you might just like it. There are quite a few applications available for it nowadays, and it is gaining more and more marketshare and public recognition.
Re:Set 32 sectors per track (Score:3, Funny)
I recommend you visit Microsoft [microsoft.com] and have a look at their "Windows" operating system. [...] Overall, it is kind of a poorly reinvented UNIX, but I think you might just like it.
I've seen some people use it, then they told me you had to pay for it. I was flabbergasted -- why would anyone pay for an operating system?