On 07/03/2010 02:20 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/3/2010 12:01 PM:I think that the partitioning tool (fdisk, cfdisk, parted, ...) is what is really important.It is. The first partition must be created on an even 4k sector aligned boundary to avoid the performance hit of unaligned access. However, from all I've read up to around March 2010, Linux, its partitioning tools, and the documentation on how to use the with 4k drives aren't ready ready for prime time yet. I'd avoid 4k sector drives until all the dust settles.
Even with older tools, there are ways to properly align partitions. You've just got to do a bit of study beforehand.
That is because filesystems already use 4KB block sizes.This is unrelated. FS block size != sector size.
It is when you use a 4KB drive!!!!
This discussion is about
disk hardware sector size.
Right. But not every geek knows everything about every topic. Thus, OP's question was valid.
Possibly also fsck.fsck is ignorant of hw sector size.
I thought so. -- Seek truth from facts.