[PATCH parted 3/5] NEWS: Add new --align option to NEWS

[Hans de Goede]

* NEWS: Add new --align option.
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 NEWS |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c0b29cc..bf1044d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline 
-*-
 
 ** New features
 
+  new --align=<align> commandline option which can have the following values:
+  none:  Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type
+  cyl:   Align partitions to cylinders (the default)
+  min:   Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+  opt:   Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+  The min and opt values will use layout information provided by the
+  disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical
+  blocks on the disks. The min value is the minimum aligment needed to
+  align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids
+  performance degradation. Where as the optimum aligment aligns to a
+  multiple of the physical block size in a way that guarantees optimal
+  performance.
+  The min and opt values will only work when compiled with
+  libblkid >= 2.17 and running on a kernel >= 2.6.31, otherwise they will
+  behave as the none --align value.
+
   libparted: new functions to set per disk (instead of per partition) flags:
   ped_disk_set_flag()
   ped_disk_get_flag()
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