From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 11:51:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8C5106564A; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucec@muon.cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188B98FC15; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6AE0EE7173; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:51:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:51:06 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <20101207115106.GB68479@muon.cran.org.uk> References: <201012061218.oB6CI3oW032770@svn.freebsd.org> <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CFE1B0F.90908@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek , John Baldwin , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r216230 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:51:07 -0000 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