[parted-devel] [rfc] SSD partition alignment

[H. Peter Anvin]

Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> Or are you saying that we should increase the alignment to 4KB in
> general? It seems that SSDs actually really want 128KB, which starts to
> feel like a bit much to apply to all disks:
> 
>   http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/
> 

Not to mention it has been a headache for RAID for many years already.

	-hpa

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