GNU bug report logs - #27884
parted reports the partition is not optimally aligned, even though it's 1MiB-aligned

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Alicia Boya García <ntrrgc <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:06:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: Alicia Boya García <ntrrgc <at> gmail.com>,
 27884-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27884: parted reports the partition is not optimally aligned, 
 even though it's 1MiB-aligned
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:02:49 -0400

On 9/20/2017 9:57 AM, Alicia Boya García wrote:
> Indeed.
> 
> This drive was advertising a ridiculous optimal_io_size that is not even
> a power of two (2^16-1 512-byte sectors). Unfortunately this seems to be
> the case with more Seagate drives:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-12/msg00002.html
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5249211/

You have to love drive firmware bugs, especially when the bastards never
fix them.
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