Re: [PATCH] mkfs: Remove messages printed when blocksize < physical sectorsize

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 09/05/2017 01:37 AM, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 12:12:08 PM IST Omar Sandoval wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:31:39PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:14:42AM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
>>>> Linux kernel commit 6c6b6f28b3335fd85ec833ee0005d9c9dca6c003 (loop: set
>>>> physical block size to PAGE_SIZE) now sets PAGE_SIZE as the default
>>>> physical sector size of loop devices. On ppc64, this causes loop devices
>>>> to have 64k as the physical sector size.
>>>
>>> Eek.  We'll need to revert the loop change ASAP!
>>
>> Most annoying patch series ever. It hasn't made it to Linus' tree yet,
>> right? We can revert (although the later change depends on that), fold
>> in a fix, or apply a fix on top of it, whatever Jens prefers.
>>
>>
> 
> My bad. 6c6b6f28b3335fd85ec833ee0005d9c9dca6c003 is the commit id from 
> Linux-next. I don't see this commit in Linus's git tree.

Right, it's only queued up, and scheduled for the 2nd part of the
block changes for 4.14. It should have been PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, but
we don't have that anymore...

Omar, are you sending a patch to fix this up?

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Jens Axboe