From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Subject: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:24:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488F524F.6020905@redhat.com> (raw)
Jim pinged me about the use case for having our tool chain (parted
specifically) support devices with non-512 bytes sectors.
Off the top of my head, the following is the list of existing or soon to
appear devices that could use this (taken from our thread last year, at
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2007/3/11/317183):
(1) R/W optical drives
(2) S390 dasd devices have a 4096 byte sector
(3) new 4096 byte disks (which intend to export a virtual 512 byte
sector)
Anything else pop into mind? Any idea if SSD or FLASH devices have
thoughts to use a non-512 byte sector size? What tools are most critical
to support?
Thanks!
Ric
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 17:24 Ric Wheeler [this message]
2008-07-29 18:21 ` tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes Alan Cox
2008-07-29 18:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-29 18:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 18:37 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 18:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 18:44 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 19:00 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 18:48 ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-07-29 18:54 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-29 18:56 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 23:41 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-07-30 13:51 ` Matt Domsch
2008-07-30 17:16 ` Jim Meyering
2008-07-30 17:29 ` Matt Domsch
2008-07-30 17:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-30 18:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-30 18:28 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-30 18:45 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-09 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-01 16:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 16:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 16:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 16:57 ` Matt Domsch
2008-07-30 5:51 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-07-29 18:41 ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-07-29 21:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-29 18:43 ` Moore, Eric
2008-07-29 19:03 ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-07-29 19:14 ` Douglas Gilbert
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