[arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Mon Feb 22 18:18:28 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:21 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Just poked around with grub2 and kvm, 
> you really need the extra space, else it will fail to install.
> creating partitions with cfdisk will also leave this space. 

With nowadays RAID and SSD stuff you want to align your partitions on
stripe or blocksizes anyways. Some newer harddisks come with 4Kbyte
sectors and have a mapping to 512byte sectors so old OS'es can work with
it. You really want to align such devices, as performance is terrible
without it.



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