From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Freemyer Subject: Re: RAID partition starting sector (... 63?) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:13:42 -0500 Message-ID: <87f94c371002171013x53acb705kf0d4f194e211fb27@mail.gmail.com> References: <73e903671002170713g397742b8l109773b4c20825ce@mail.gmail.com> <87r5ojon3j.fsf@frosties.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Goswin von Brederlow , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "Goswin" =3D=3D Goswin von Brederlow writes: > > Goswin> Newer windows starts the first partition at 1M, which gives g= ood > Goswin> alignment in nearly every situation. > > Correction: Windows aligns the first partition at 1MB + whatever > alignment is reported by the storage device. > > Recent fdisk and parted to do the same. > > -- > Martin K. Petersen =A0 =A0 =A0Oracle Linux Engineering Martin, I assume this is through the relatively new /sysfs interface. Is mdraid now advertising its preferred stripe alignments through /sysfs? Thanks Greg --=20 Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Pap= er - The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html