Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Mike McCarty wrote:
[,,,]
>> So, I'm still living with an apparently good disc which is unexplainably
>> slow.
>>
> Modern big disks are apparently formatted for 4096 byte blocks while the
> linux view of a disk is still done with 512 byte blocks. We are being told
> that if the partitions are not aligned to these 4096 byte fence posts, the
> drive will be slow because of the on the fly translations. As to the
> veracity of that claim, I have NDI.
The disc has been in use for a couple of years, with no problem
until the last few months.
[...]
>> OTOH, I have a recent full backup of all my data.
>
> You should invest in another 1Tb disk, set that up so amanda can use v-tapes
> on that big disk, setup amanda to run every night via an entry in the amanda
> crontab. End of worries and 100% automatic.
That's possibly good advice, but not a backup solution. One need
off site storage, IMO. I want my data safe, even if my house burns
or I get a flood, etc.
Mike
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