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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2012 15:48:47 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk
Message-ID:  <20120522134846.GA2274@tiny>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205220731070.51493@wonkity.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205182209010.9350@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4fb7dfd6.736a980a.186d.ffff902f@mx.google.com> <20120519180901.GA1264@tiny> <4fb7e819.6968700a.7a7f.ffff9153@mx.google.com> <20120522061734.GA1210@tiny> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205220731070.51493@wonkity.com>

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El día Tuesday, May 22, 2012 a las 07:42:18AM -0600, Warren Block escribió:

> On Tue, 22 May 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> > El día Sunday, May 20, 2012 a las 03:36:01AM +0900, rozhuk.im@gmail.com escribió:
> >>
> >> Do not use MBR (or manually do all to align).
> >> 63 - not 4k aligned.
> >
> > To create the above shown partition layout I have not used gpart(8); I
> > just said:
> >
> >    # fdisk -I /dev/ada0
> >    # fdisk -B /dev/ada0
> >
> >  ...
> > What is wrong with this procedure?
> 
> The filesystem partitions end up at locations that aren't even multiples 
> of 4K.  This can reduce performance.  How much probably depends on the 
> SSD.

But this is then rather a bug in fdisk(8) and not a PEBKAC, or? :-)

	matthias

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Matthias Apitz
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