svn commit: r216230 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs

[Bruce Cran]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:31:27PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Not necessary. Some places indeed may have some legacy requirements,
> for example, in theory MBR want partition to be aligned to "track
> boundary" (but I've seen many pre-formatted SD cards with MBR
> violating it to align partition to flash sector). Same time for BSD
> label I see no problem to align partitions any way we want. I also
> see no problems to make FAT cluster, UFS block/fragment, etc, to
> match some sizes.

>From a new installation of Windows 7 and FreeBSD CURRENT:

GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not end on a track bounary.

Partition 2 is the reserved partition while 3 is an NTFS partition, both
created in the Windows setup application.

Since Windows isn't bothering to align partitions do we still need to
warn about it?

-- 
Bruce Cran