From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759355AbZDQWwl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:52:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757083AbZDQWwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:52:30 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50983 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753552AbZDQWw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:52:29 -0400 Message-ID: <49E90684.6020707@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:45:24 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Szabolcs Szakacsits CC: Jeff Garzik , Avi Kivity , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Grant Grundler , Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Jens Axboe , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI... References: <20090412091228.GA29937@elte.hu> <20090412162018.6c1507b4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <49E213AE.4060506@redhat.com> <49E2DC96.6090407@redhat.com> <49E45E9C.1020105@redhat.com> <49E46437.5000804@garzik.org> <49E46779.1040106@redhat.com> <49E47744.3040103@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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