On 01/08/2016 02:51 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Christian Seiler a écrit : >> for compatibility reasons every tool that manipulates MBR >> partitions will therefore want to leave a gap after the MBR. > > Current tools won't align for compatibility purpose any more. The > default 1-MiB alignment is only for performance purpose, not compatibility.
This is new to me - I always thought that this was entirely for compatibility. I'm curious: How would that help performance-wise? On SSDs it shouldn't matter at all - and if you have rotational media, you'd need to figure out the physical (not the logical) geometry of the drive to be effective - and if I'm not mistaken there's no standardized way of getting to that via software. What am I missing here? Regards, Christian
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