On Feb 12 2008 15:26, David Miller wrote: > >> (Yes, I had xfs on sparc before, so it's not like you NEED the >> whitespace at the start of a partition.) > >You actully do unless you want to lose significant chunks of your disk >space. > >The Sun disk label only allows you to specify the start of a partition >in cylinders, so if you want to use a filesystem like XFS you have to >start the partition on cylinder 1 which can be many blocks into the >disk. That entire first cylinder is completely wasted. Ok you do have a point there. The GPT users win of course, since it uses LBA, not cyls, so the number of lost bytes is generally below a cyl. On the other hand, the H and S of CHS could be lowered and S increased, e.g. divide H by 2, divide S by 2, multiply S by 4. This gives a finer bytes/cylinder granularity. >What XFS does by putting the superblock at zero is simply does not >take these kinds of issues into consideration. > Well it was designed for a different system initially with a different style of booting. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
