ext4 testing in the F10 release cycle
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Sep 4 01:06:17 UTC 2008
Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote:
>> c) Put an alignment option in the installer, so people can optimize their
>> partitions and filesystems for SSDs, RAID, and anything else where alignment
>> matters.
>
> mkfs should be doing this, not the installer. mkfs.xfs does;
> mkfs.ext$FOO should too.
>
> -Eric
I should qualify that; "can" if it's on storage that can be queried (md,
lvm, etc - but not some random hardware scsi lun ... for that case
perhaps installer tweaks maybe, but how often do you really install onto
these things at anaconda-time?
-Eric
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