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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]ext4 on 4k-sector drives without read-modify-write support
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:19:20 -0500
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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:

Jeff> Also, mkp noted that the theory of operation was to issue aligned
Jeff> units of 4k, but using 512 byte addressing.

Yeah, we'd have to expose a 4KB lbs to the filesystem and then do a
translation to 512-byte units when filling out the command.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering