On 1/6/15 11:17 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: > I see. Indeed, on the drive where I get sectsz as 512 by default, blockdev --getss --getpbsz reports: > > 512 > 512 what kind of drive is this; is it usb, SATA, or ? > However hdparm -I reports: > > Logical Sector size: 512 bytes > > Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes > > So is it still worthwhile making sectsz 4 KB explicitly instead of > using mkfs.xfs default in such case? And on a side note, since there > is a more reliable way to figure that info out, may be mkfs.xfs > should rather use that? > a) probably can't hurt b) probably doesn't matter ;) c) not sure why there are 2 different answers. Knowing what kind of drive it is would be good; mkfs.xfs just uses whatever blkid says. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs