On 03/11/2010 05:57 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.
That's basically what you end up having to do for FAT filesystems to be aligned.
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