>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Eric> It seems that we should be checking for any alignment offsets in Eric> libxfs then, too; if there IS an offset, then perhaps 4k is the Eric> wrong answer, (perhaps there is no right answer) but if there is Eric> NO offset, 4k should be the right choice, yes? In most cases the partitioning/DM tools should give you a 0 offset. But it would a good idea to at least print a warning if lbs != pbs and offset > 0. Eric> And if the drive is broken then c'est la vie? Yes :) FWIW, the reason 4KB lbs drives are having a revival in the is that there is not a lot of confidence in 512e for the enterprise. Many vendors won't support them in servers due to correctness concerns and lack of performance predictability. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
