From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI... Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <49E0D47B.9070205@garzik.org> <20090411203246.513a0892@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42215 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757834AbZDKT5l (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:57:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090411203246.513a0892@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Jens Axboe , Arjan van de Ven On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The spec describes the sector size as > > "512, 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, etc." It will be interesting to reach > > "etc" territory. > > Over 4K will be fun. And by "fun", you mean "irrelevant". If anybody does that, they'll simply not work. And it's not worth it even trying to handle it. That said, I'm pretty certain Windows has the same 4k issue, so we can hope nobody will ever do that kind of idiotically broken hardware. Of course, hardware people often do incredibly stupid things, so no guarantees. Linus