On 02/27/2015 02:23 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:41:46AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> >> People systems have been using ramdisk with >> smaller-than-page-size blocks in their mkfs. >> >> The 4K sectors is only important if we will be >> using brd with a DAX filesystem. >> >> So only enable 4K sectors if DAX is configured > > 4k sectors are not a problem - we should be handling them fine and > because it makes the ramdisk look like a 512e drive, no applications > should fail, either. > > The main "unexpected" part about it was how much of xfstests didn't > handle 4k sectors in mkfs output properly. This isn't a problem with > the kernel change and so doesn't need fixing. > Glad to be of service ;-) Please tell me if there is anything I can help with > Cheers, > Dave. > Thanks Boaz -- 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
