From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>,
Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI...
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:45:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E90684.6020707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0904141447520.13379@tamago.serverit.net>
Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
>>>
>>> Windows 2008 aligns partitions on a 1MB boundary, IIRC.
>> Makes a lot of sense...
>
> Since Vista at least the first partition is 2048 sector aligned.
>
> Szaka
>
2048 * 512 = 1 MB, yes.
I *think* it's actually 1 MB and not 2048 sectors, but yes, they've
finally dumped the idiotic DOS misalignment. Unfortunately the GNU
parted people have said that the parted code is too fragile to fix
parted in this way. Sigh.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-17 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090412091228.GA29937@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 15:14 ` Implementing NVMHCI Szabolcs Szakacsits
2009-04-12 15:20 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-12 16:15 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 6:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-13 15:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 15:38 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 10:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-14 10:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 11:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-14 11:58 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2009-04-17 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-14 12:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 12:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-25 8:26 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-12 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 17:02 ` Robert Hancock
2009-04-12 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 18:35 ` Robert Hancock
2009-04-13 11:18 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:23 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <6934efce0904141052j3d4f87cey9fc4b802303aa73b@mail.gmail.com>
2009-04-15 6:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-30 22:51 ` Jörn Engel
2009-04-30 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 17:33 Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 19:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-11 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-11 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 21:49 ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-11 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 5:08 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-04-11 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-11 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-12 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 1:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-12 1:15 ` david
2009-04-12 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 14:23 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-12 17:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 19:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 21:08 ` John Stoffel
2009-04-11 21:31 ` John Stoffel
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