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Resize NVMe sector size on snap-02 #1139

Open Firefishy opened 3 months ago

Firefishy commented 3 months ago

The NVMe disks in snap-02 are using 512 sectors instead of 4096 byte sectors. The sector size should likely be changed if boosts performance.

LBA Format  0 : Metadata Size: 0   bytes - Data Size: 512 bytes - Relative Performance: 0 Best (in use)
LBA Format  1 : Metadata Size: 0   bytes - Data Size: 4096 bytes - Relative Performance: 0 Best

Changing the disk sector size formats (deletes contents) the disk, the sector size needs to be carefully coordinated with mdadm.

Outline steps:

  1. Confirm array idle via /proc/mdstats
  2. mdadm --fail
  3. mdadm --remove
  4. nvme format --lbaf=1
  5. mdadm --add

(repeat disk by disk across all 9 disks)