On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@xxxxxx> writes: > > Goswin> Newer windows starts the first partition at 1M, which gives good > Goswin> alignment in nearly every situation. > > Correction: Windows aligns the first partition at 1MB + whatever > alignment is reported by the storage device. > > Recent fdisk and parted to do the same. > > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering Martin, I assume this is through the relatively new /sysfs interface. Is mdraid now advertising its preferred stripe alignments through /sysfs? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
