On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: > > I guess, what he meant was, to keep filesystem blocks aligned, even if the > partition is not. Say if the partition is mis-aligned by 512-bytes, let the > filesystem waste 4k-512bytes and keep it's blocks aligned. But it might be a > case of over-engineering, possibly requiring disk format change. Ah, yes, I agree with you; that's probably what he meant. Sure, that's theoretically possible, but it would mean changing every single filesystem, and it would require a file system format change --- or at least a file system format extension. It would seem to be way easier to simply fix the partitioning tools to do the right thing, though. -- 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
