On 2012-06-12, Peter Laufenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>On 06/11/12 19:25, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: >>> Let me know, please, whether it makes sense to modify disk geometry >>> for solid state disks? >> >>If you knew what physical block size your SSD worked with, you might -- >>MIGHT -- see some benefit using that, but the 4k offsets seem to work >>just fine. I doubt you would feel any difference... > > Intel's answer about X25 SSDs' erase block size on their support forums is > pretty much "fuck off".
Some SSD controllers use compression, so even if you have details of flash block sizes you can't make any calculations about partition alignment based on them.
