From: Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@fold.natur.cuni.cz>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:22:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F919B55.2020802@fold.natur.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq17gxa1iwc.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Lukasz" == Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com> writes:
>
> Lukasz> Where can I find information about current status of support for
> Lukasz> 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel? Is there a
> Lukasz> leader/maintainer of this issue in community?
>
> We have supported 4Kn for a decade. 512e obviously works out of the
> box. However, filesystem/partition/DM tooling has been updated to align
> correctly on 512e devices.
>
> See:
>
> http://oss.oracle.com/~mkp/docs/linux-advanced-storage.pdf
Also:
https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/articles/a/t/a/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues_d4b8.html
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Windows_Writes_To_MBR
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
I agree there is nothing about under Documentation/ in kernel sources, at least
from users point of view.
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 14:21 Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel Lukasz Dorau
2012-04-20 15:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-23 11:41 ` Dorau, Lukasz
2012-04-20 16:13 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-04-20 17:22 ` Martin Mokrejs [this message]
2012-04-23 11:44 ` Dorau, Lukasz
2012-04-27 12:14 ` Dorau, Lukasz
2012-04-27 12:30 ` Martin Mokrejs
2012-04-27 14:53 ` Dan Williams
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