On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Kristleifur Daðason wrote:
Starting on sector 64 feels conceptually "prettier" than Sector 63, but I can't picture the case where it behaves any different. Except
If you have WD20EARS drives with 4k sectors on-disk you'll get ~1/3 performance if you start on sector 63 instead of an even 4k boundary.
Always go for even 4k boundary. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx