| To: | Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: LWN article: 4K disk sectors |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:26:21 -0400 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <200903121258.51497@xxxxxx> |
| References: | <200903121258.51497@xxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:58:51PM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote: > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/322777/16380cde8af0a37e/ > > 4K disk sectors coming 2011, might be interesting for devs to prepare > supporting it. Fortunately there's not just the PC world. 4k is the standard sector size of most common mainframe DASD so the Linux filesystems including xfs deal with it very well. The real issue are bootloader and anything involving the DOS partitioning scheme. |
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