Re: Beating a dead horse

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

Greg Troxel wrote:
> The other thing would be to change the alignment threshold to 128G.
> Even that's big enough that 1M not used by default is not important.
> And of course people who care can do whatever they want anyway.

I would go further than that.  Alignment is not only an issue with 4K
sector disks, but also with SSDs, USB sticks, and SD cards, all of
which are being deployed in sizes smaller than 128 GB even today.

My vote is for a threshold of 1 G.  This means that worst case, we
could end up wasting as much as 0.1% of the capacity on alignment
(the horror!).
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost