> The Sun disk label only allows you to specify the start of a partition > in cylinders, so if you want to use a filesystem like XFS you have to > start the partition on cylinder 1 which can be many blocks into the > disk. That entire first cylinder is completely wasted.
I don't believe a cylinder of wasted disk space is significant. I don't believe a cylinder of disk is worth adding the complexity of sharing a partition to a filesystem. That complexity translates into engineering time and mistakes. Your other arguments for making a hole in the filesystem, based on tradition, are more convincing. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
