On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:35:21AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Thank you Christoph for clarification, also thanks to Eric - I've been > aligning all partitions to a multiple of 512 sectors since a long time, > which fits all stripe set sizes up to 256k. Too bad that even Linux > fdisk and parted Current fdisk, and with some limitations parted do the right thing and align partitions on at least a 1MB boundary. parted unfortunately lowers alignment again when any kind of optimal I/O size hint is set, but I'm still hoping for that bug to get fix in a new release. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs