On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:04:27AM +0100, Sergio Lopez wrote: > I've done a little research on how partition size affects performance > in Linux (http://goo.gl/9IHsu). This means that, probably, fdisk should > try to favor the creation of partitions with a size which is multiple of > 4096. Yes. > From what I saw in the code, now fdisk tries to create partitions that > ends at cylinder boundary, so I'm not sure if it would be possible to > conciliate both strategies. Not true, the "cylinder boundary" is enabled for dos compatible mode only. This mode is not used by default. The current code uses 1MiB grain or the optimal (or minimal) I/O size as reported by the device. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
