On Monday 08 March 2010 04:48:35 Tejun Heo wrote: > Unfortunately, while Windows can assume that newer releases won't > share the hard drive with older releases including Windows XP, Linux > distros can't do that. There will be many installations where a > modern Linux distros share a hard drive with older releases of > Windows. At this point, I can't see a silver bullet solution. > > Partitioners maybe should only align partitions which will be used by > Linux and default to the traditional layout for others while allowing > explicit override. I think Windows XP wouldn't have problem with > differently aligned partitions as long as it doesn't actually use them > but haven't tested it. Any idea if XP can cope with partition tables that use a 32-sector, 128-head geometry rather than the default 63-sector, 255-head one? That seems to be what some flash memory cards are using and it would make any cylinder aligned partition also 4096-byte aligned, at the cost of moving the 1024-cylinder boundary from 7.88 GiB to 2 GiB. Do we know of anything that requires 63s/255h? Arnd -- 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
