From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 21:35:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716A21065678 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:35:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DB48FC19 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:35:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (c-67-180-24-15.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.24.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pB5LZifn097802 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:35:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4EDD393F.1080204@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:35:59 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111103 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Martinec References: <57041.1323103673@critter.freebsd.dk> <4EDD001D.1030702@freebsd.org> <201112051838.08327.Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <201112051838.08327.Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:35:48 -0000 On 12/5/11 9:38 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: > Nathan wrote: >> The installer will align all partitions to the GEOM stripesize/offset. >> We could make it do min(4KB, stripesize), but in general I think this is >> better done at the GEOM level. > I doubt any SSD device on the market will want to admit its > internal structure, they all claim 512 sectors AFAICT. > Seems to me the min(4KB,stripesize) would be a safe bet. we (fusion-IO) certainly export our native blocksize.. whether it's 512 or 520 or 4000 or 4096.. you feed it in as a format parameter and we'll actually do what you ask for. (512 and 4096 are the most used values of course) > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >