Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.17 (stable) |
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On Fri 2010-01-08 13:43:47, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/08/2010 01:33 AM, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > fdisk: > > - the fdisk command aligns newly created partitions to minimum_io_size > > boundary ("minimum_io_size" is physical sector size or stripe chunk > > size on RAIDs). > > > > - the fdisk command supports disks with alignment_offset now. > > > > I think we should align, by default, much more aggressively than that -- > because frequently we just don't know what the real physical alignment > is (think of flash media, which uses large erase blocks underneath.)
Flash has special mapping layer, and does not care (SD/MMC), or is a raw nand and can't be used as block device (smartmedia).
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