From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Florian Kusche <flox@kusche.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions about 4k sector drives
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:17:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDECD02.3020401@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BDE0512.8070502@tmr.com>
On 5/2/2010 7:04 PM, 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.
SSD usually have an erase block size of 512k, which is why Windows 7
aligns partitions to a 1 MB boundary and parted has followed suit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-25 11:45 Questions about 4k sector drives Florian Kusche
2010-04-25 14:43 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-02 23:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-05-03 5:54 ` Luca Berra
2010-05-03 13:17 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2010-05-03 13:30 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-05-03 13:38 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-03 20:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-05-04 13:24 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-04 15:29 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-05-05 7:44 ` John Robinson
2010-05-05 7:47 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-05-10 17:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-05-03 20:19 ` Martin K. Petersen
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