On 03/16/2010 02:14 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
The big problem is that 99% of the x86 systems out there still use the
ancient msdos label for their boot disks, so aligning H/S going forwards
will give us a nice "just works" for x86 boxes.
The key issue is not "just work", but "performance". When unaligned, the
write performance can be lower than 50% of the expected rate.
- Thomas
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