Hello, On 03/17/2010 12:23 AM, James Bottomley wrote: >> So, using custom geometry doesn't help compatibility at all. > > Our partitioning tool still obey the integral cylinder rule ... we can > argue about whether they should, but what we need is a strategy for > fixing what is rather than what should be. The updated ones don't anymore. They just align to 1MiB + whatever the drive requests for offset (the offset-by-one thing). They will basically behave the same as windows vista/7 ones, so it's already fixed. What we can argue is whether adding CHS tricks on top to make those larger alignments somewhat meaningful w/ CHS interpretation too, which I'm objecting on the ground that it doesn't help compatibility at all. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
