Re: CRTNWSSTG sector size - 512 or 4096

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> The sector size there is legacy from when Winders was supported, and 
for AIX and Linux

That is not a correct statement. The 4K Sector size was added in i 7.2 
which was after Windows support was announced as 'going away'. It was 
added specifically for IBM i guest partitions.

Here is a presentation by Kris Whitney that includes discussion of 4K 
Virtual Disks:

http://www.quser.org/sites/default/files/PowerVM%20for%20IBM%20i%20-%202017%20QUSER.pdf

Note that here 4K Support is shown to be "+" or good performance however 
that has not proved to be the case in the field.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 12/29/2018 9:14 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> Don't mess with that.   The sector size there is legacy from when Winders was supported, and for AIX and Linux.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
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> > On Dec 28, 2018, at 11:40 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When creating NWSSTG, what sector size should be specified, 512 or 4096?
> > Default is 512.
> >
> >
> > Thank You
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