From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q2HLf0Xk128752 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:41:00 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id HSOjTE5GQ07o73HZ (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wibhq7 with SMTP id hq7so1924790wib.14 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F650493.7080709@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:39:31 +0100 From: Zdenek Kaspar MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: raid10n2/xfs setup guidance on write-cache/barrier (GiB alignment) References: <4F61803A.60009@hardwarefreak.com> <20321.63389.586851.689070@tree.ty.sabi.co.UK> <20322.29849.917554.794740@tree.ty.sabi.co.UK> <20324.44842.473837.511238@tree.ty.sabi.co.UK> In-Reply-To: <20324.44842.473837.511238@tree.ty.sabi.co.UK> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Peter Grandi Cc: Linux RAID , Linux fs XFS Dne 17.3.2012 16:35, Peter Grandi napsal(a): > I often recommend aligning partitions to 1GiB, also because I > like to have 1GiB or so of empty space at the very beginning and > end of a drive. I'm really curious why do you use such alignment? I can think about few reasons, but most practical I think you like to slice in gigabyte sizes. Z. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs