> The Sun disk label only allows you to specify the start of a partition
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> in cylinders, so if you want to use a filesystem like XFS you have to
> start the partition on cylinder 1 which can be many blocks into the
> disk.  That entire first cylinder is completely wasted.

I don't believe a cylinder of wasted disk space is significant.  I don't 
believe a cylinder of disk is worth adding the complexity of sharing a 
partition to a filesystem.  That complexity translates into engineering 
time and mistakes.

Your other arguments for making a hole in the filesystem, based on 
tradition, are more convincing.

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Bryan Henderson                     IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA                         Filesystems

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