On Mar 11 2007 18:51, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > During the recent IO/FS workshop, we spoke briefly about the > coming change to a 4k sector size for disks on linux. If I > recall correctly, the general feeling was that the impact was > not significant since we already do most file system IO in 4k > page sizes and should be fine as long as we partition drives > correctly and avoid non-4k aligned partitions. Sorry about jumping right in, but what about an 'old-style' partition table that relies on 512 as a unit? > 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... Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
