From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] label sector and non 512 byte sectors
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:02:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130103180254.GC19165@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50DB10B4.1000505@gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:59:00AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> The man page for pvcreate states that the label goes in the second
> sector. That means it SHOULD be at an offset of 4096 bytes when using
> 4096 byte sectors, but apparently it is still at an offset of 512 bytes.
> Bug?
We define a sector at 512 bytes. Always.
Some documentation could be improved to make that clearer.
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-26 14:59 [linux-lvm] label sector and non 512 byte sectors Phillip Susi
2013-01-03 18:02 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2013-01-03 19:13 ` Stuart D Gathman
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