-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2012 02:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I'd be suspicious because it's smaller than 1MiB and not a power of > 2. Have you seen opt/min values like that?
Sure, take a 4 disk raid5 with 256k stripe factor. > I suspect that the existing code is the way it is for a good > reason, hence my reluctance to gut it. What if some system reports > totally bogus min. or opt. values < 1MiB? As it is now, parted will > ignore them. But with your patch, it would use them and leave the > user with poorly-aligned partitions. Then that's a bug in the kernel. Parted shouldn't ignore the kennel on the off chance that some day somehow for someone it will have a bug. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQziH8AAoJEJrBOlT6nu75NTgIAK7ElOn+xM7INVBWccKT6DsL QlmJ+MzdDv+d0om4j/0bbywijAx8OIO70hVpczUeCph5dhh+jdBG+J/zc/uG7e7U VS5jMwkJFWP8GUfV+w1+CNHg28QbXEOxo+p+tsEb/JCfKaqixyVma96lMiRXg3Ac b0/sI8hLS0oJ9bKPggz36+qZx6AkSo26JFePfGCBRXPa4Bhk4Ka70rsHr+kd9tiD o4wH5iznsbUwL2nBUtJTaqYZCU88qR6/+gp/kgLf7hKRLal7HSFeH+9vC8BvPnjL 5DKD7MGX3r7uLMYdRlmmeJhZm/SM4yYK5y4hpj94rNuB3ye/QnQ+x47mvCugUbc= =W8hE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
