On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > > > I'm currently just using a single large partition & ext3. I didn't > > do anything special in fdisk so the partition might not be aligned as > > best it could be. I don't know. > > […] > The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it > would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M > would avoid this.
Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k boundaries (so really only one erase cycle is needed for files <=512 k), isn't this fairly superfluous? -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. The advantage of RSS jokes is that you always know the newest one.
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