on 23/05/2011 20:38 Warner Losh said the following: > > On May 23, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> I think we've had enough rushed and ill thought-out changes going >> in already and I can see that not aligning MBR partitions on a track >> boundary is potentially perceived as a PITA violation.
_PITA_ violation? :-) As to POLA - yeah, I can see people getting astonished that finally FreeBSD got its sh*t together and did the right thing, years after all other OSes (even Winddows) had done it. > I can understand only generating MBRs on a track boundary. No. E.g. I wanted to create a 4KB aligned MBR slice, but our tools insisted on using a 63 sector alignment. In fact, the value that I provided was silently rounded to the value that gpart thought was best for me. Really, if a user says to gpart "do whatever alignment you want", then I could see using geometry-based values, but I still think that we should not do that even in that case, I think we would be better off using some nice 2^N alignment. If a user says "use this alignment or slice start", then the tool should just shut up and do exactly what the user told it. This is _not_ just my 2 cents :-) -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
