[CALUG] Fedora upgrade .... CALUG Digest, Vol 54, Issue 14

[Bryan J Smith]

For storage performance, especially in arrays, perfect boundaries on page, 
block, stripe and cache are ideal.  If you use CHS addressing, then you're on 
imperfect boundaries.

Again, CHS can be safely _ignored_ with NT and Linux.  I used to default to 
dealing with it until I did some performance testing.  That's when I switched to 
exact sector alignments on perfect boundaries (1GiB today, I started with 256MiB 
back then) years ago.

One can set down to 32/64 if one so desires, but it really doesn't matter either 
way.  Putting in the exact number of 512b or, more recently, 4KiB sectors is 
always absolute.  But 32/64 will show up far more pretty in legacy fdisk 
versions.



----- Original Message ----
From: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET>
Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 4:05:00 PM

  I am a bit more anal about partitions...I want the Cylinders to be 
multiples of 1000 so I can remember them. But I am also a fan of Cookie 
Cutter Sized Partitions or LVs.

Alternatively, if you create the Partition Label with 32 sectors and 64 
heads, you get 1M cylinders, which is kinda small, but works nicely for 
flash drives.