On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:28:12PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > If I remember correctly, the MS Vista new alignment for data partitions > is on a 0 offset, 1MB aligned boundary. The support for 4096 byte > sectors is only for data partitions (not boot). > > Array vendors, who consume a fair amount of drives, are most likely more > friendly to native 4k drives. The big fear from disk vendors is getting > a wave of returns from Best Buy, etc when people go and plug in a new, > native 4k drive into an old box.... Or a new box running XP, either via the Dell "upgrade to XP" program, or from a corporate I/T load[1]. :-) [1] http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/23/intel-dumps-vista More to the point for Linux, are *our* partition table programs (i.e., fdisk, cfdisk, et. al) fixed with better defaults in upstream, and what are the upcoming enterprise distributions going to ship with? Since that's what a large number of Linux customers will end up using for the next 3-5 years.... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
