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• yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  mdadm tells you to do that as a safeguard against buggy implementations. That does not make it okay to have buggy implementations.
  • mjevans 8y ago
    It also helps to safeguard against semi-buggy and forgettable humans. Literally the software equivalent of putting a label on your data. GPT with 1MB aligned partitions will probably work for the foreseeable future; if for no other reason than (popularity across OSes) inertia and it being a nice binary multiple. As a note; I refuse to use the silly 'MiB' style syntax. 1M bytes is base 10, 1MB is base 2 'near' to that, since bytes implies the native to the device base 2 alignment rather than the common among humans base 10 default.
• vectorEQ 8y ago
  Original author(s) Neil Brown Developer(s) Jes Sorensen Initial release 2001 why does this random authors of code needs to inform people of the fact their hardware has shitty bugs which are apparently never fixed because 'everyone will read best practices'. That seems problematic to me.... I would expect it sooner from the mainboard manufacturer in their information, - with perhaps a warning and a choice (uefi as gui so why not eh!) before destroying disk content.... (the OPs system clearly just does it without even prompting or giving an indication it will do it.) Before this firmwares modify the disk they could easily prompt to check if it's ok with the data's owner to modify this data. manufacturers shouldn't rely on assumptions in their code for processes which can destroy someones personal data in any case. there being a warning from some people who dive into disk drives a lot that this kind of problem exists doesn't make that situation any better.
  • mar77i 8y ago
    Well I may be imagining a pattern here that's biased by my own mileage, but starting from what computers usually come pre-installed with (windows)...