목차
[RHEL 6] parted reports “Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.”
문제
- While creating a partition using
partedutility, it reports that new partition is misaligned and this may result in very poor performance:
(parted) mkpart primary 128 1048575
Warning: You requested a partition from 128s to 1048575s.
The closest location we can manage is 128s to 1048542s.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No? Yes
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. <-----
Ignore/Cancel? C
- What is the reason for above warning messages? how to eliminate it?
환경
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Parted
해결
- When creating the partition using
partedutility, please select the start sector value for partition that satisfies one of the following three conditions in algorithm used to determine optimal alignment for the partition:
1) Always use the reported alignment offset as offset
2a. If optimal io size is present in the topology info use that as grain
2b. If optimal io size is not present in topology info and alignment
offset is 0 and minimum io size is a power of 2, use the
default optimal alignment (grain 1MiB).
2c. If not 2a and 2b, use the minimum io size, or if that is not defined
the physical sector size as grain (iow the minimum alignment).
- For example, when optimal io size is not present in topology information, alignment offset is 0 and minimum io size is a power of 2, please select the start sector value for a partition such that it is greater than or equal to 2048 (4k), if start sector value is greater then 2048, then please make sure that it is exactly divisible by 2048:
(parted) p
Model: IET VIRTUAL-DISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdf: 1048576s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
(parted) mkpart primary 128 1048576
Error: The location 1048576 is outside of the device /dev/sdf.
(parted) mkpart primary 128 1048575
Warning: You requested a partition from 128s to 1048575s.
The closest location we can manage is 128s to 1048542s.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No? Yes
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
Ignore/Cancel? C
(parted) mkpart primary 2048 1048575
Warning: You requested a partition from 2048s to 1048575s.
The closest location we can manage is 2048s to 1048542s.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No? Yes
(parted) p
Model: IET VIRTUAL-DISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdf: 1048576s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2048s 1048542s 1046495s primary
OR
Get the values as below:
# cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/optimal_io_size
# cat /sys/block/sdb/alignment_offset
# cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size
Now to get the right first sector add optimal_io_size to alignment_offset and then divide the result by physical_block_size.
For example:
optimal_io_size = 1310720
alignment_offset = 0
physical_block_size = 512
i.e 1310720+0/512 = 2560
Now do:
# mkpart primary 2560 100% OR
# mkpart primary 2560 1000G
See How to create a partition with parted for details on creating partition with parted.
근본 원인
parteduses the following algorithm to determine optimal alignment for newly created partition, if none of the following conditions viz. 2a, 2b or 2c are satisfied, then warning message "The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance." would be displayed bypartedutility.
1) Always use the reported alignment offset as offset
2a. If optimal io size is present in the topology info use that as grain
2b. If optimal io size is not present in topology info and alignment
offset is 0 and minimum io size is a power of 2, use the
default optimal alignment (grain 1MiB).
2c. If not 2a and 2b, use the minimum io size, or if that is not defined
the physical sector size as grain (iow the minimum alignment).
이 포스팅 글도 참조 하면 도움이 된다.
aligned for best performance - parted