Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com> writes: > On 08/07/2015 11:41 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote: > <> >> >>> We need to cope with the case where the end of a partition isn't on a >>> page boundary though. >> >> Well, that's usually done by falling back to buffered I/O. I gave that >> a try and panicked the box. :) I'll keep looking into it, but probably >> won't have another patch until next week. >> > > lets slow down for a sec, please. > > We have all established that an unaligned partition start is BAD and not > supported?
No. Unaligned partitions on RAID arrays or 512e devices are bad because they result in suboptimal performance. They are most certainly still supported, though. -Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
