On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:00:14 -0600 Curtis Gedak wrote: > Karel Zak wrote: > > The current fdisk default is to use cylinders and DOS-compatible mode > > (align to the cylinders and use geom.sectors as offset for the first > > partition). Now is year 2010 and this behaviour sucks... > > > > <snip> > > > > I have changed the default fdisk behavior, fdisk is going to use sectors > > and non-DOS mode by default (1MiB grain and offset). This change will be > > available in v2.18-rc2. > > > > <snip> > > > > Comments? > > > > I agree that it is time to move forward and change the default alignment > behaviour. Since you have provided the ability to enable cylinder > alignment (DOS-compatible mode), people requiring this old alignment > scheme can still access this mode. Yes, progress is good, and both of you know your users better than I do, but I would be concerned about mucking up those working scripts out there in the wild, so I would leave 'fdisk' working as is and make modern-fdisk (mfdisk) have the new behavior. Same binary file (for software development/maintenance), but fdisk is a symlink to mfdisk. One rebuttal could easily be: but we want users to start using the new behavior even when they use 'fdisk', and I can understand that viewpoint also... oh well. > In GParted I am changing the default alignment behaviour to align to > MiB, with an option to use cylinder alignment if a person so choses. > This change in default behaviour will be available in the upcoming > GParted 0.6.0 release planned for this Friday. > > There will likely be some casualties from changing the default alignment > behaviour, but I believe that benefits of switching to use MiB alignment > for today's devices will outweigh the disadvantages of continuing to use > cylinder alignment as the default. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
