>>>>> "Ric" == Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Ric> I will have to see if I can get a storage vendor to make a public Ric> statement, but there are vendors hoping to see this land in Linux Ric> in the next few years. I assume that anyone with a shipping device Ric> will have to at least emulate the 4KB sector size for years to Ric> come, but that there might be a significant performance win for Ric> platforms that can do a larger block. I am aware of two companies that already created devices with 8KB logical blocks and expected Linux to work. I had to do some explaining. I agree with Ric that this is something we'll need to address sooner rather than later. -- 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
