| To: | Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH RFC] xfs: set block device logical sector size on xfs_buftarg |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:20:22 -0800 |
| Cc: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>, xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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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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