From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Hillel Lubman <shtetldik@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: What is a recommended XFS sector size for hybrid (512e) advanced format hard drives?
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:30:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ACC472.4010104@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2511571.nTXGg0tW6M@shtub-cm>
On 1/6/15 11:17 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote:
> I see. Indeed, on the drive where I get sectsz as 512 by default, blockdev --getss --getpbsz reports:
>
> 512
> 512
what kind of drive is this; is it usb, SATA, or ?
> However hdparm -I reports:
>
> Logical Sector size: 512 bytes
>
> Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes
>
> So is it still worthwhile making sectsz 4 KB explicitly instead of
> using mkfs.xfs default in such case? And on a side note, since there
> is a more reliable way to figure that info out, may be mkfs.xfs
> should rather use that?
>
a) probably can't hurt
b) probably doesn't matter ;)
c) not sure why there are 2 different answers. Knowing what kind of drive
it is would be good; mkfs.xfs just uses whatever blkid says.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-07 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-05 0:56 What is a recommended XFS sector size for hybrid (512e) advanced format hard drives? Hillel Lubman
2015-01-05 3:52 ` Stan Hoeppner
2015-01-06 2:23 ` Hillel Lubman
2015-01-06 3:21 ` Stan Hoeppner
2015-01-06 4:01 ` Hillel Lubman
2015-01-06 8:35 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2015-01-06 17:02 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-06 19:05 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-06 19:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-06 19:42 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-06 19:55 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-07 5:31 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-07 6:01 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-07 5:17 ` Hillel Lubman
2015-01-07 5:30 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2015-01-07 5:36 ` Hillel Lubman
2015-01-07 6:06 ` Chris Murphy
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