Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of disk_alignment

Timestamp:

Mar 11, 2011, 4:50:06 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Daniel Kahn Gillmor

Comment:

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disk_alignment

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 = Disk Alignment =
 
-We use a complex stack of block device tools.  As it turns out, these tools will perform slightly better if they all agree on block boundaries.
+We use a complex stack of block device tools.  As it turns out, these tools will perform slightly better if they all agree on block boundaries.  Common block boundaries are powers of two, and the largest block boundaries i've heard of on modern equipment are 4MiB in size.  So this suggestion is to align on 4MiB boundaries (as that will also guarantee alignment on smaller power-of-two boundaries).
 
 == setting up ==