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

Mauro Santos registo.mailling at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 18:24:26 EST 2010


> 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.

Anyone with one of these new disks (such as the ones from WD, rotating
platers disks, not ssd)?
I'm curious to know if fdisk/cfdisk correctly detect the sector size or
if the user needs to override what is detected.


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