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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Ibragimov Rinat <ibragimovrinat@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]ext4 on 4k-sector drives without read-modify-write support
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:52:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49sjv85i00.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PtOoK-0008CR-00.ibragimovrinat-mail-ru@f261.mail.ru> (Ibragimov Rinat's message of "Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:24:08 +0300")

Ibragimov Rinat <ibragimovrinat@mail.ru> writes:

> I have a proposal about 4k-sector hard drives support in fs drivers.
> Toshiba MK1231GAL is an 1.8" LIF IDE drive. It has 4096-byte physical
> and 512-byte logical sectors [1]. Unlike others drives with Advanced
> Format, it has not read-modify-write logic, so it can only operate
> with 4k blocks. Fortunately some filesystems in linux (I tested jfs, 

Then it should report a logical block size of 4k.  You have a drive with
broken firmware.

Cheers,
Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-26 18:24 [PATCH][RFC]ext4 on 4k-sector drives without read-modify-write support Ibragimov Rinat
2011-02-28 14:52 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2011-02-28 14:58   ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-28 18:09     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28 20:19       ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-28 21:05         ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28 21:10           ` Jeff Moyer
2011-02-28 21:22             ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28 21:57               ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-01 15:19                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-28 21:20           ` James Bottomley
2011-02-28 21:24             ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28 21:23           ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-28 22:52       ` [PATCH][RFC]ext4 on 4k-sector drives without read-modify-writesupport Ibragimov Rinat
2011-03-01 22:16       ` Ibragimov Rinat
2011-03-10 17:01         ` Ibragimov Rinat
2011-02-28 17:54   ` [PATCH][RFC]ext4 on 4k-sector drives without read-modify-write support Ibragimov Rinat
2012-09-27 11:41     ` Mike

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