512e 4kn

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    Does forcing 4Kn on VM disks actually help?

    Running PVE on hosts with 512/512 disks, storage is ZFS (ashift=12) and Ceph. Guests use virtio-scsi-single, mostly Linux, some Windows. I wonder if it's worth adding (or similiar): args: -global scsi-hd.physical_block_size=4096 -global scsi-hd.logical_block_size=4096 For Linux it feels...
  2. M

    accidentally deleted GPT table --(stupid stupid)

    Today I was replacing one of eight 8TB drives on my proxmox ve server ZFS pool. I needed to swap /dev/sdd, and long story short, while comparing the GPT table with /dev/sda, I deleted the GPT table on /dev/sda... instead of /dev/sdd the new replacement drive. I got the great error "disk is...