Re: filesystem dead, xfs_repair won't help

Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-12T17:41:34Z

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:22:20PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > We make use of that (it's probably less important on NVMe; still why
> > > waste bandwidth needlessly).
> > In that case it would be the wrong thing for you.
>
> Would it be under our control?

Yes, even if we switch a mkfs default you could still manually override
it as long as the device supports a smaller logical block size, similar
to how we treat 512 logical / 4k physical SAS and SATA drives today.