>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> writes: Matthew> Lowest aligned logical block address=0 Matthew> This disagrees with Martin's assertion. The original roadmap was to transition to 4KB sectors in 2006, coinciding with the Vista release. Given how long this has taken (we're now talking ~2011 for GA) it may very well be that the alignment knobs will be unused because everybody will be using Vista or 7 by then. That doesn't change the RAID array alignment problem, however. And we need to prepare our partitioning tools to align correctly regardless. -- 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