On 21.10.2014 16:17, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Stefan Huchler <stefan.huch...@mail.de> wrote: > >> Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> writes: >> >>> Where you get bad results is with, e.g. a pre-existing legacy OS like >>> Windows XP, where it's not aligned and any subsequent partition is >>> also not aligned. In that case, even a Btrfs volume wouldn't be >>> aligned. >> >> I dont want to care at all, I dont want to know if to use fdisk is ok or >> do I have to use sfdisk or another tool etc. I dont want 1980 dos >> partion tables… not dos 15.0 aka windows. > > Again if you're using modern utilities, you don't have to know any of these > things, alignment is a solved problem. My point is that Btrfs doesn't do > anything differently than other filesystems in this regard, which is exactly > nothing. It all depends on an earlier tool aligning the partition on the > physical sector boundary. > > >> >>> Well it's certainly exceptionally f'n complicated in relation to the >>> benefits we get. But whatever, that ship has sailed. We'll just have >>> to see how it all plays out, but for now UEFI and Secure Boot are the >>> way of the present, not just the future. >> >> Benefits? I dont see any. > > Rootkit immunity. Chain of trust. Why should only Windows users get these > things?
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