bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 5 21:35:48 UTC 2011


On 12/5/11 9:38 AM, Mark Martinec wrote:
> Nathan wrote:
>> The installer will align all partitions to the GEOM stripesize/offset.
>> We could make it do min(4KB, stripesize), but in general I think this is
>> better done at the GEOM level.
> I doubt any SSD device on the market will want to admit its
> internal structure, they all claim 512 sectors AFAICT.
> Seems to me the min(4KB,stripesize) would be a safe bet.

we (fusion-IO) certainly export our native blocksize..

whether it's 512 or 520 or 4000 or 4096..

you feed it in as a format parameter and we'll actually do what you 
ask for.
(512 and 4096 are the most used values of course)

>    Mark
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