linux-kernel - Re: Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance

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Message-ID: <3960.4587f434.9e684@altium.nl>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:16:20 -0000
From:	dick.streefland@...ium.nl (Dick Streefland)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance

Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com> wrote:
| The entire concept of geometry is a a carryover from days gone by. 
| These days it is just a farse maintained for backwards compatibility. 
| You can put fdisk into sector mode with the 'u' command and create 
| partitions of any number of sectors you desire, regardless of the 
| perceived geometry.

An easy way to clone a partition table is:

  sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY

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Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
dick.streefland@...ium.nl           (@ @)          http://www.altium.com
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