Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:51:06 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r216230 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs Message-ID: <20101207115106.GB68479@muon.cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4CFE1B0F.90908@FreeBSD.org> References: <201012061218.oB6CI3oW032770@svn.freebsd.org> <AANLkTine9rGq_cM4ruFXYq=-F7cMXcQAr-zKHuWoQs2z@mail.gmail.com> <20101206195327.GD1936@garage.freebsd.pl> <201012061518.49835.jhb@freebsd.org> <4CFD514E.8010103@FreeBSD.org> <20101207095137.GC1700@garage.freebsd.pl> <4CFE0B9E.3060808@FreeBSD.org> <20101207110410.GE1700@garage.freebsd.pl> <4CFE1B0F.90908@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:31:27PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > Not necessary. Some places indeed may have some legacy requirements, > for example, in theory MBR want partition to be aligned to "track > boundary" (but I've seen many pre-formatted SD cards with MBR > violating it to align partition to flash sector). Same time for BSD > label I see no problem to align partitions any way we want. I also > see no problems to make FAT cluster, UFS block/fragment, etc, to > match some sizes. >From a new installation of Windows 7 and FreeBSD CURRENT: GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary. GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary. GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary. GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not end on a track bounary. Partition 2 is the reserved partition while 3 is an NTFS partition, both created in the Windows setup application. Since Windows isn't bothering to align partitions do we still need to warn about it? -- Bruce Cran
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