From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o6PFUfCb065930 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:30:46 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 96A9CC1FEDF for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id zJ0Xq8y2O24GQBz9 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:33:42 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: 4k sector drives Message-ID: <20100725153342.GA31260@infradead.org> References: <201007211333.48363.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> <20100724084751.GA32006@infradead.org> <4C4B55F7.2090501@sandeen.net> <201007250035.25946@zmi.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201007250035.25946@zmi.at> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Monnerie Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Eric Sandeen , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:35:21AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Thank you Christoph for clarification, also thanks to Eric - I've been > aligning all partitions to a multiple of 512 sectors since a long time, > which fits all stripe set sizes up to 256k. Too bad that even Linux > fdisk and parted Current fdisk, and with some limitations parted do the right thing and align partitions on at least a 1MB boundary. parted unfortunately lowers alignment again when any kind of optimal I/O size hint is set, but I'm still hoping for that bug to get fix in a new release. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs