Hello, On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 04:32:59AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > Align your partitions on a 4K boundary. > > While this will ensure that the drive performance is better > than without doing so (I'm not using a partition table on that > drive anyways, but I get what you mean), this doesn't inform > the kernel about proper I/O sizes and for sure doesn't prevent > unnecessary read-change-write operations for the disc ... Kernel doesn't really care. Well, the fs should align things to 4KiB but all the modern ones already do so. The only thing necessary is aligning the partition table. Whether the drive lies about physical sector or not, most modern distros unconditionally align partitions to 1MiB. So, as long as you use a distro which was released in the past six month, there's nothing to worry about. 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
