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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] mke2fs: get device topology values from blkid
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:13:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1k4zw93vu.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB2B6B9.7010506@redhat.com> (Eric Sandeen's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:22:49 -0500")

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> writes:

Eric> This is just a rough cut, due to the blkid header selection issues
Eric> I mentioned earlier on the list.  It'll also need some config-fu
Eric> to be sure we've got a blkid which has these calls, but with it in
Eric> place, we'll finally have automatic selection of stride/stripe:

What about alignment?

I know that in our friendly DM universe the volume will be aligned.  But
what if the user does mkfs on /dev/sdX and the drive isn't naturally
aligned?

How flexible is the extN on-disk format?  Can you pad and shift things
if need be?

Also, are you guys affected by the previously-acked-sectors-are-now-gone
problems with 512-byte logical/4KB physical drives?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 22:22 [PATCH, RFC] mke2fs: get device topology values from blkid Eric Sandeen
2009-09-18  5:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-18 14:04   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-18 14:20     ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-18 14:30       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-18 16:43       ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-18 16:57         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-18  6:13 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2009-09-18 14:18   ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-18 14:23   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-18 19:40     ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-09-18 20:28       ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-20 20:46         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-09-22 14:30           ` Ric Wheeler
2009-09-18 23:59 ` Karel Zak
2009-09-19  3:03   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-21 17:06 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2009-10-02 16:32   ` [PATCH V3] " Eric Sandeen
2009-10-04 19:16     ` Theodore Tso

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