linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.17 (stable)

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Message-ID: <4B47A713.9060405@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:43:47 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.17 (stable)

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.)
Windows aligns partitions 1 MB boundaries by default now -- I think
that's probably a reasonably good idea, at least for any disk that's not
tiny, say 256 MB or less.

	-hpa
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