Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 20:06 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> Chris Snook wrote: >>>> c) Put an alignment option in the installer, so people can optimize their >>>> partitions and filesystems for SSDs, RAID, and anything else where alignment >>>> matters. >>> mkfs should be doing this, not the installer. mkfs.xfs does; >>> mkfs.ext$FOO should too. >> I should qualify that; "can" if it's on storage that can be queried (md, >> lvm, etc - but not some random hardware scsi lun ... for that case >> perhaps installer tweaks maybe, but how often do you really install onto >> these things at anaconda-time? > > mkfs should be able to query scsi info about a block device just as well > as anaconda... Arguably it could be done in anaconda first just to show > that it works nicely (as python is easier to hack on ;-) Well, I meant in some cases where you simply cannot query the device, then *if* you wish to make the fs via anaconda, you'd need some knobs to twiddle manually... > But it definitely should be "hardware as seen as blah, do the right > thing" as opposed to "make the user figure it out". > > Also, there are some additional complications once you start thinking > about things like the live install where we just dd over the filesystem > and then resize rather than doing a whole new one. in that case you really are probably not too worried about fs geometry and performance, I think. -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
