Re: File system blocks alignment

From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry_at_andric.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:13:27 +0100
On 2010-01-06 12:38, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Yep, Windows 7 seems to align its partitions on 1 MiB by default... They
>> were always proponents of wasting your disk space for you. :)
> There are many reasons to criticize Microsoft and their products, but
> this is not one of them.

I was just kidding, of course.  This alignment been chosen deliberately,
since it should nicely encompass all stripe sizes supported by RAID
controllers.  And no need to ask the underlying device for its stripe or
chunk size...
Received on Wed Jan 06 2010 - 11:13:25 UTC

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