Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

2009-10-30 Thread Robert Heller
hnologyforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=335049&postcount=134 > > --Blake > > Original Message > Subject: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement... > From: John Doe > To: centos@centos.org > Date: Friday, October 30, 2009 9:45:59 AM > > Hi, > >

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

2009-10-30 Thread NiftyCluster Tom Mitchell
On 10/30/09, John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > I modified my kickstart to do some custom partioning and formating in a > pre-install script. > I am trying to align the partitions on the RAID stripe (and format with a > correct stride). > But, sfdisk complains that it does not start/end on a cylinder bound

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

2009-10-30 Thread Blake Hudson
ipe/sector. Obviously, the concept of a cylinder starts to go out the window with RAID, SSD's, etc. More information about partition alignment here - http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=335049&postcount=134 --Blake Original Message ---- Subject: [CentOS]

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

2009-10-30 Thread John Doe
> So, for my first partition (96MB): > begin=256 > size = ( ( 96 * 1024 * 2 ) / 8160 ) * 8160 = 195840 sectors > end = 195840 - 1 - 256 = 195583 Oops, I meant: begin = 256 size = 96 * 1024 * 2 = 196608 sectors end = ( ( begin + size ) / 8160 ) * 8160 - 1 = 195839 aligned_size = end

[CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

2009-10-30 Thread John Doe
Hi, I modified my kickstart to do some custom partioning and formating in a pre-install script. I am trying to align the partitions on the RAID stripe (and format with a correct stride). But, sfdisk complains that it does not start/end on a cylinder boundary (used -L option to limit complaining