[parted-devel] [PATCH 6/6] libparted: fix optimal IO alignment

[Phillip Susi]

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On 12/15/2012 08:44 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> That code seems to be trying to exclude opt/min values that do not
> evenly divide PED_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT.  That makes sense only when
> they're no larger than PED_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT. How about keeping the
> sanity-check, but applying it only when those values are no larger?
> I.e.,

Why do you think it makes sense when the kernel value is under 1 MB?
PED_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT is all well and good when the kernel doesn't
know of a better value, but if it thinks that the optimal alignment is
say, 768k, why should we disregard that?



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