> Are there other concerns in the IO or FS stack that we should bring up > with vendors? I have been asked to summarize the impact of 4k sectors > on linux for a disk vendor gathering and want to make sure that I put > all of our linux specific items into that summary... We need to make sure the physical sector size is correctly reported by the disk (eg in the ATA7 identify data) but I think for libata at least the right bits are already there and we've got a fair amount of scsi disk experience with other media sizes (eg 2K) already. 256byte/sector media is still broken btw 8) I would be interested to know what the disk vendors intend to use as their strategy when (with ATA) they have a 512 byte write from an older file system/setup into a 4K block. The case where errors magically appear in other parts of the fs when such an error occurs are not IMHO too well considered. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
