>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: Christoph> Without this patch the minimum I/O size for 4k drives will be Christoph> reported incorrectly, which will make paritions misaligned on Christoph> modern distros. I'm in total agreement with the patch (feel free to add my Acked-by:). However, the minimum I/O size should still be reported correctly. We don't allow min_io to be smaller than physical_block_size... [root@10 ~]# grep . /sys/block/sdc/queue/{logical_block,physical_block,minimum_io}_size /sys/block/sdc/queue/logical_block_size:512 /sys/block/sdc/queue/physical_block_size:4096 /sys/block/sdc/queue/minimum_io_size:4096 -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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