On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:25:50PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:06:10PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:53:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > On 02/05/2010 12:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > > On 01/28/2010 02:44 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > I would like to suggest the following patch. Otherwise, we are using
> > > the minimum alignment *for the current device*, but disk layouts have a
> > > nasty tendency to outlive their respective media.
> [...]
> > In some cases we cannot ignore disk topology, for example for
> > desktop-class 4K disks (or some NetApp setups, etc.) you have to use
> > alignment_offset to calculate the physical block boundary.
>
> The proper patch to implement your request is:
Applied with some minor changes, thanks for the hint.
Karel
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