In message <[email protected]>, Marcel Moolenaar 
writes:

>I think we've had enough rushed and ill thought-out changes going
>in already and I can see that not aligning MBR partitions on a track
>boundary is potentially perceived as a PITA violation.

We should suggest track alignment on creation, but not enforce it.

There are a lot of valid reasons to not track-align, most commonly
the desire to not shoot RAID-5 performance in the foot.

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