On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:06:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> parted-devel, can anyone comment on this? It seems to me that either
> (a) _get_lax_constraint should be using ped_alignment_any for its start
> alignment, rather than aligning to sectors * heads boundaries, or (b)
> Sun labels really and truly require cylinder alignment, in which case
> requests to use optimal alignment shouldn't be honoured.
The begin of the partition has to be defined in cylinders:
struct __attribute__ ((packed)) _SunRawPartition {
u_int32_t start_cylinder; /* where the part starts... */
u_int32_t num_sectors; /* ...and it's length */
};
IMHO it does not make sense to use non-cylinder alignment here.
Karel
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