Do I need to be concerned with "partition does not end on cylinder boundary" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
fdiskis reporting "partition X does not end on a cylinder boundary"- will io get split and cause performance issues if partitions don't end on cylinder boundaries?
- Based on advice from our storage vendor, we've changed the starting sector of a partition to 128, providing a 64 KB boundary and aligns with our SAN cache size for better performance. When we use
fdiskto display this partition, we get "Partition X does not end on a cylinder boundary." Do we need to be concerned about this message?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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