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

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Message-ID: <4B4B5768.2040005@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:52:56 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, 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 01/11/2010 06:05 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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).
>

Uhm, that's just plain wrong.

It doesn't matter if there is a "special mapping layer" -- if you're 
crossing multiple erase blocks you're still having more churn in your 
flash translation layer, with more wear on the device, and lower 
performance than if you didn't.

	-hpa
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