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[PATCH parted 1/3] NEWS: Add new --align option to NEWS
From: |
Hans de Goede |
Subject: |
[PATCH parted 1/3] NEWS: Add new --align option to NEWS |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:48:38 +0100 |
* NEWS: Add new --align option.
---
NEWS | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 500e060..cd67678 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@ 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
+ cylinder: Align partitions to cylinders (the default)
+ minimal: Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+ optimal: Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+ The minimal and optimal values will use layout information provided by the
+ disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical
+ blocks on the disks. The mininal value uses the minimum aligment needed to
+ align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance
+ degradation. Where as the optimal value uses 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()
--
1.6.5.2
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