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The end of the 3.12 merge window

The end of the 3.12 merge window

Posted Sep 17, 2013 21:33 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: The end of the 3.12 merge window by fishface60
Parent article: The end of the 3.12 merge window

I believe it's good for partitions on flash that need to be aligned to some large blocks. It's better to sacrifice a hundred bytes in CMOS and in RAM than to lose 256k on a system that is tight on the flash space.


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