Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:33:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. |
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On 03/11/2010 05:57 AM, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: > > I guess, what he meant was, to keep filesystem blocks aligned, even if the > partition is not. Say if the partition is mis-aligned by 512-bytes, let the > filesystem waste 4k-512bytes and keep it's blocks aligned. But it might be a > case of over-engineering, possibly requiring disk format change. >
That's basically what you end up having to do for FAT filesystems to be aligned.
-hpa
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