Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:10 +0800 | From | Thomas Chou <> | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. |
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On 03/16/2010 02:14 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > The big problem is that 99% of the x86 systems out there still use the > ancient msdos label for their boot disks, so aligning H/S going forwards > will give us a nice "just works" for x86 boxes. > > The key issue is not "just work", but "performance". When unaligned, the write performance can be lower than 50% of the expected rate.
- Thomas
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