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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: impact of 4k sector size on the IO & FS stack
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:57:27 +0000
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:45:16AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >the occasional 2k sector SCSI MO device aswell.  It would be nice to
> >get samples of large sector size ATA devices into the hands of developers
> >to do real world testing of the whole stack.
> 
> "hands of developers" meaning you specifically?  :)

No.  I probably wouldn't have time to deal with it aswell.

> I've had a 512b-logical/1K-physical ATA test drive for a few months now, 
> and another couple arrived today.

Ok, that's exactly what I meant.