On 01/02/2014 01:02 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 1/2/2014 10:31 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
On 1/2/2014 10:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
First, there is no such thing as a 4K sector in Linux. Sectors are
512 bytes. Filesystem blocks and memory pages are 4K.
Of course there is. Disks with 4k sectors are becoming more and more
popular.
Please read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
There are no native 4K sector drives on the market. Linux does not
Untrue.
http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/hdd/hard_disk_drives/product_detail.jsp?productid=452
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/constellation-fam/constellation-cs/en-us/docs/terascale-hdd-data-sheet-ds1793-1-1306us.pdf
and many others.
512 byte sector native drives are now far less common, with many of the
drives being native 4096 bytes with a translation layer for legacy
systems that require 512 bytes. This is infamous for wreaking havoc
with alignment.
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