-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2014-07-05 at 23:25 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
None of that matters.
What matters is the partition start sectors.
With 512 byte sectors on modern disks it doesn't matter at all where the partitions start.
With 4kb.sectors, it is important that the partitions start on 4kb boundaries.
I suppose that what really matters is that the filesystem allocation units match the hard disk "hardware" sectors, so that when the system wants to read or write a filesystem sector, it does not have to translate to accessing two hard disk real sectors. Possibly, if the filesystem indexes 512 byte units, it does not matter? But if it uses, say, 1024 units, half may be on end of a 4K HD sector, and the other half on the start of the next 4K sector. And this also means that it would be better if the filesystem is also using 4 KB sectors itself, right? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlO5Q4cACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Ug3ACdH5vhcXn0YQzFDLsL1pnAilCE hPEAni4uGIf+Gs1Fzaywt/RDxyQh/nDI =nk9t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org