on 07/12/2010 13:51 Bruce Cran said the following: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:31:27PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Not necessary. Some places indeed may have some legacy requirements, >> for example, in theory MBR want partition to be aligned to "track >> boundary" (but I've seen many pre-formatted SD cards with MBR >> violating it to align partition to flash sector). Same time for BSD >> label I see no problem to align partitions any way we want. I also >> see no problems to make FAT cluster, UFS block/fragment, etc, to >> match some sizes. > >>From a new installation of Windows 7 and FreeBSD CURRENT: > > GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary. > GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary. > GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary. > GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not end on a track bounary. > > Partition 2 is the reserved partition while 3 is an NTFS partition, both > created in the Windows setup application. > > Since Windows isn't bothering to align partitions do we still need to > warn about it? >
No. And another reason is that modern drives do not actually report any CHS parameters, so I don't even know where we get them and how we (pretend to) know we track boundaries are. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
