Re: [PATCH][RFC]ext4 on 4k-sector drives without read-modify-write support

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Ibragimov Rinat <ibragimovrinat@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I have a proposal about 4k-sector hard drives support in fs drivers.
> Toshiba MK1231GAL is an 1.8" LIF IDE drive. It has 4096-byte physical
> and 512-byte logical sectors [1]. Unlike others drives with Advanced
> Format, it has not read-modify-write logic, so it can only operate
> with 4k blocks. Fortunately some filesystems in linux (I tested jfs, 

Then it should report a logical block size of 4k.  You have a drive with
broken firmware.

Cheers,
Jeff
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