Hard drive spec change

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:22:13PM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Hadn't seen this discussed yet (not really a big hardware geek), and
> just saw an article about this today.  Are we (linux as a whole) ready
> for this or getting ready, or already using it?  And If we bought a new
> hd, via sata in my case within past year or newer computer in past year,
> are we using the new 4kb sectors now or just able to handle it?
> 
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361156,00.asp

  It got some discussion when first 4KiB drives shipped to customers
last year. Also, LWN has excellent (as usual) writeup on the matter:
http://lwn.net/Articles/377895/ . If you need access to this article,
please drop me an email.

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