From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Questions about 4k sector drives Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 07:54:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20100503055447.GC25863@maude.comedia.it> References: <4BD42B57.9000703@kusche.de> <1272206601.7734.4.camel@faldara> <4BDE0512.8070502@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BDE0512.8070502@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 07:04:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Is there any reason not to just align partitions for all drives on 32kB > sectors and expect that to work on 512b 4kB and SSD? Cautious testing here > says it works fine, no anomalies, no exciting performance data, just works. No reason at all, consider that even microsoft decided to align partition at 1M boundary with W2008. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \