From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 20:32:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F2E1065697 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:32:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A788FC1C for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20468 invoked by uid 399); 7 Dec 2010 20:32:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 7 Dec 2010 20:32:35 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CFE99E1.5030301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:32:33 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101028 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Cran 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> <20101207115106.GB68479@muon.cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101207115106.GB68479@muon.cran.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek , John Baldwin , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin Subject: Re: svn commit: r216230 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:32:38 -0000 On 12/07/2010 03:51, Bruce Cran wrote: > 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? It would be great to remove this warning. I see the same problem with partitions created by Linux, which uses the Windows'y version of CHS. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/