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Subject: Re: btrfs on whole disk (no partitions)
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2014-06-19 2:07 GMT+02:00 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>:

> For boot disks I use the traditional partitioning system.  So far I don't run
> any systems that have a boot disk larger than 2TB so I haven't needed to use
> GPT.
>
> I have a BTRFS RAID-1 on 2*3TB disks which have no partition tables, when the
> filesystem is going to use the entire device and there's no boot loader there
> is no reason to have a partition table.

ok, but what about alignment? This can have a significant impact on performance.