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From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 2/2] loop: support 4k physical blocksize
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 11:04:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170607180403.GC7481@vader.DHCP.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170407145924.GA29654@ming.t460p>

On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 10:59:29PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 12:50:57PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > When generating bootable VM images certain systems (most notably
> > s390x) require devices with 4k blocksize. This patch implements
> > a new flag 'LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE' which will set the physical
> > blocksize to that of the underlying device, and allow to change
> > the logical blocksize for up to the physical blocksize.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
[snip]
> Looks V7 still doesn't recover logical/physical block size for
> new attached file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ming

Hannes, ping? I'd still like this patch.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-06-07 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-07 10:50 [PATCHv7 0/2] loop: enable different logical blocksizes Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-07 10:50 ` [PATCHv7 1/2] loop: Remove unused 'bdev' argument from loop_set_capacity Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-07 10:50 ` [PATCHv7 2/2] loop: support 4k physical blocksize Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-07 14:59   ` Ming Lei
2017-06-07 18:04     ` Omar Sandoval [this message]

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