Not prepared for 4096 byte sector hard drives?

Ric Wheeler rwheeler at redhat.com
Mon Feb 15 00:20:41 UTC 2010


On 02/14/2010 11:59 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Any truth here?
>
> http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096-
> Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives
>


We have actually been working hard to take advantage of the information that 
these drives export so hopefully this will all work in f13 to make sure that we 
align partitions and do IO in sizes supported by the drive (i.e., 4KB for these 
drives).

There is still work to do to support drives that don't emulate 512 byte sectors 
for boot partitions...

ric



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