Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:33:03 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove requirement of alignment to track from MBR scheme Message-ID: <98005.1306171983@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 09:35:52 MST." <D75B2856-D9D8-4BA3-BC54-8258610CEA06@xcllnt.net>
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In message <D75B2856-D9D8-4BA3-BC54-8258610CEA06@xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes: >I think we've had enough rushed and ill thought-out changes going >in already and I can see that not aligning MBR partitions on a track >boundary is potentially perceived as a PITA violation. We should suggest track alignment on creation, but not enforce it. There are a lot of valid reasons to not track-align, most commonly the desire to not shoot RAID-5 performance in the foot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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