Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

[jdow]

From: "Tejun Heo" <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 2010/March/16 20:44


> Hello,
>
> On 03/17/2010 11:51 AM, Kevin Easton wrote:
> > Can't we fix the problem by defaulting to aligning partitions to
> > start on an LBA that is a multiple of 64260 ?
> >
> > Such partitions will always be 4KiB-aligned, *and* start-of-cylinder
> > aligned (assuming 255/63, as seems to be the norm).
> >
> > Sure, that reduces your partition granularity to almost-32-MiB, but
> > that's pretty small potatoes these days (and it's only a *default*, so
> > you could always override that if you really cared, and didn't need 
> > the compatibility).
>
> The only thing we can gain by that is possible compatibility w/ very
> old operating systems (<=w2k, BTW, it would be great if someone can
> actually test it).  Plus, breaking the first cylinder assumption might
> not be always safe to begin with.  I personally don't think it's
> something worth departing from the behavior most vendors would assume
> from now on (1MiB alignment).  It should be enough and safer to
> provide a mechanism to choose legacy alignment if someone is trying to
> put something which is older than a decade there.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun

WRT very old filesystems - it won't affect Amiga partition tables or
the Amiga FFS. It already understands large block sizes natively. And
that's MY definition of "old" with "very" in front of it.

{^_^}   Joanne Dow
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