Re: ext4 testing in the F10 release cycle

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen redhat com>]

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