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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:14:51 +0200
From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster:
>> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
>>> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster:

>> Yes, I know that. But why exactly does it help to align a partition to
>> the erasable block size? I don't get it. Why isn't it sufficient to
>> align to the usual 4K block size, so that a block never spans over two
>> erasable blocks?
>
> well, for one, there are lots of ssd which have 8k pages. Not 4k.

Whatever. Then align to 8K instead. But what does this have to do with 
the erasable page size?

	Wonko