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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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