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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:32:52 -0500
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com>
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On 3/14/2011 12:17 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>
>> Is there any concern with mixing 4KB-sector drives with 512-byte
>> sector drives in the same LV?
>
> Both LVM2 and Device Mapper have been updated to accommodate stacking
> such a mix of drives.
>
> See this for a bit more detail:
> http://people.redhat.com/msnitzer/docs/io-limits.txt
>
> Particularly, the "Stacking I/O Limits" section.
>
> The concern raised for partial (4k) writes to the 512b drive was
> discussed a bit more here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/22/295

Are there any version-level hints about when/where these changes appear 
and come together in the real world (i.e. distributions like RHEL, 
debian, Ubuntu)?

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   Les Mikesell
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