On Fri, Sep 26 '03 at 15:04, Christophe Saout wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.09.2003 schrieb jon+lvm@silicide.dk um 14:48: > > > > I don't know, but couldn't the use of a one-sector block slow things > > > down because of alignment issues? Perhaps using a 4k block would be more > > > useful or storing the sector at the end of the device (like the linux > > > raid info sector). > > > > maybe, but does it matter? > > No, I meant the following: Let's assume you are using crypto on a raid > 0/5 device or something. Usually the filesystem uses 4k blocks. > [ ... ] A lot of harddisks these days use internal blocks that are > larger than 512 bytes so there are also alignment issues. While I don't have any idea how harddisks work internaly thise days, I've no problem to loose 4k or even 16k if it improves anything. But I would still like to get it to the beginning of the partition/drive/device. Mainly to be able to do less -f $DEVICE to figure out what it's all about. I do this more often than not and hate it if all i get back is just binary garbage. Everyfile should tell me what is is for/from in plain text. -- /"\ Goetz Bock at blacknet dot de -- secure mobile Linux everNETting \ / (c) 2003 as GNU FDL 1.1 X [ 1. Use descriptive subjects - 2. Edit a reply for brevity - ] / \ [ 3. Reply to the list - 4. Read the archive *before* you post ] _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
