Hard drive spec change

[Eric Sandeen]

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

There has been a lot of work upstream on 4k sector support, and in general
yes, we are ready.

-Eric