From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] xfs: set block device logical sector size on xfs_buftarg
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:20:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131122142022.GC14680@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528F66A4.7060200@redhat.com>
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:13:56AM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> I think you do that by using SCSI debug to get a 4K sector drive -
> that is how we tested for RHEL6 for example. Layering on
> restrictions to hardware in the file system seems a bit harsh.
>
> The QEMU crowd will be working to get better support for 4K drives
> in the future, but I think that we are effectively going to cause a
> huge field issue here since these 512/4K drives are extremely
> common..
>
> Given the SCSI debug method for this, does that mean you retract
> your objections and will support Eric's patch :) ?
We actually have a test for 4k drives using scsi_debug in xfstests: xfs/279.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-13 18:25 [PATCH RFC] xfs: set block device logical sector size on xfs_buftarg Eric Sandeen
2013-11-13 18:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-13 19:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-13 21:26 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-13 21:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-13 22:10 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-13 22:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-14 0:34 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-14 13:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-14 14:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-14 21:01 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-22 14:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-11-22 14:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-11-22 14:26 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-11-22 14:57 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-14 0:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-14 6:49 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-14 13:09 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-11-14 15:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-14 15:18 ` Eric Sandeen
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