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-* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.1 (2009-12-20) [stable]
** New features
+ new --align=<align> commandline option which can have the following values:
+ none: Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type
+ cylinder: Align partitions to cylinders (the default)
+ minimal: Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+ optimal: Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+ The minimal and optimal values will use layout information provided by the
+ disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical
+ blocks on the disks. The mininal value uses the minimum aligment needed to
+ align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance
+ degradation. Where as the optimal value uses a multiple of the physical
+ block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance.
+ The min and opt values will only work when compiled with
+ libblkid >= 2.17 and running on a kernel >= 2.6.31, otherwise they will
+ behave as the none --align value.
+
libparted: new functions to set per disk (instead of per partition) flags:
ped_disk_set_flag()
ped_disk_get_flag()
** Bug fixes
+ parted can once again create partition tables on loop devices.
+ Before, "parted -s /dev/loop0 mklabel gpt" would fail.
+ [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
+
improved >512-byte sector support: for example, printing a table on a
4k-sector disk would show "Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/512B",
when the sizes should have been "4096B/4096B".
handle device nodes created by lvm build with udev synchronisation enabled
properly.
+ when printing tables, parted no longer truncates flag names
+
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]
** Improvements
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