>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: hpa> Martin K. Petersen wrote: >> >> Modern Windows aligns the first partition on a 1 MB boundary. >> >> As far as disks go, initially the plan was to have "legacy" branded >> drives with 63-sector alignment. But I think that has been abandoned >> in favor of instant one-time formatting. I.e. you can pick your >> poison *once* and that formatting will be done in constant time. Any >> subsequent changes to blocking and alignment will require a real >> low-level format. >> hpa> Why one-time? It's a compromise to avoid hours of low-level formatting before you can use a drive. New drives will come from the factory formatted in a special way that can be switched instantaneously. But once you start writing you're stuck with it. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
