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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Sector size is assumed 512
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To: Tomasz Lasko <tomasz@lasko.pl>
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It's been a linux kernel coding standard to treat the sector size as
always 512 bytes which we have adopted - regardless of the actual
hardware underneath.

S and s, and B and b mean the same.

Both userspace and kernel code automatically respects alignment
constraints imposed by the devices underneath, such as larger sector sizes.

Alasdair