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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> 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.

I vote for it :)