[Ocfs2-users] partition offset/alignment on SAN devices.

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:18:30PM -0400, Enrique Sanchez wrote:
> I've been getting requests from the users that they want the OCFS2
> filesystems aligned to 64k boundaries, however, when I began the
> project, the dummy of me, created the OCFS2 filesystem on top of the
> whole disk device (no partition) for example, one of the SAN devices
> would show up as /dev/dm-10, I created the filesystem using the
> following command:
> 
> mkfs.ocfs2 -L SOMELABEL /dev/dm-10
> 
> is this supported, am I safe or did I just shoot myself in the foot,
> mouth & brain?

	It will certainly work.  The big danger is that you might fdisk
the drive without thinking, stomping on the ocfs2 volume.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
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