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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:28 +0100
Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Err... I'm a bit lost.  But anyway, you agree we need the -D flag?
I'm not really into these alignment things, but if you guys say I should
apply it, then I'll do it.

Dieter