From: dE <de.techno@gmail.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk and 2048 sectors obsession.
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:23:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544FAE07.6080605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq138a8pdxh.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
On 10/28/14 18:08, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Karel" == Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> writes:
> Karel> This is standard behavior for all modern partitioning tools.
>
> Karel> the goal is to start the first partition on offset which is the
> Karel> most portable and the most useful on all possible disk
> Karel> configurations.
>
> Not only that. It was an explicit request from IDEMA. The disk drive and
> RAID vendors asked all operating system vendors to ensure 1MB alignment
> by default.
>
Ok, it's an IDEMA recommendation. That's why.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 18:43 fdisk and 2048 sectors obsession dE
2014-10-27 19:07 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 3:24 ` dE
2014-10-28 3:55 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 4:30 ` dE
2014-10-28 5:53 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 7:32 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-28 7:49 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 8:48 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-10-28 8:47 ` Martin Steigerwald
[not found] ` <544F3B20.7090109@gmail.com>
2014-10-28 14:33 ` dE
2014-10-28 17:11 ` Linda Walsh
2014-10-29 14:28 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-10-28 7:53 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-28 12:38 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-10-28 14:53 ` dE [this message]
2014-10-28 15:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-10-29 16:40 ` dE
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