Re: Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel

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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Dorau, Lukasz <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, April 20, 2012 7:22 PM Martin Mokrejs wrote:
>>
>> Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>> >>>>>> "Lukasz" == Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >
>> > Lukasz> Where can I find information about current status of support for
>> > Lukasz> 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel?  Is there a
>> > Lukasz> leader/maintainer of this issue in community?
>> >
>> > We have supported 4Kn for a decade. 512e obviously works out of the
>> > box. However, filesystem/partition/DM tooling has been updated to align
>> > correctly on 512e devices.
>> >
>
> Does it mean that I can just plug the 4K HDD in and it will work without making any changes in kernel?
>

See sd_read_capacity() in drivers/scsi/sd.c
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