Am Donnerstag 12 März 2009 schrieb Michael Monnerie:
> On Donnerstag 12 März 2009 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Take a look at the mkfs.xfs man page:
> >
> > -s sector_size
> > This option specifies the fundamental sector size of
> > the filesystem. The sector_size is specified either as
> > a value in bytes with size=value or as a base two loga-
> > rithm value with log=value. The default sector_size is
> > 512 bytes. The minimum value for sector size is 512;
> > the maximum is 32768 (32 KiB). The sector_size must be
> > a power of 2 size and cannot be made larger than the
> > filesystem block size.
>
> Ugh, I felt so good this morning, until you responded ... ;-)
>
> I thought that it's a limitation of the Linux kernel in more parts than
> just the filesystem (like block cache), that sector sizes must be 512B.
> If I had a 4K drive, would that be usable with XFS already?
I have an USB stick with 2KB hardware sector size. It worked nicely when
using fdisk instead of cfdisk which only supports 512 byte sectors. Dunno
remember exactly which filesystems I tried back then.
And first I wondered why it had a partition in the first quarter of it and
then empty space. I thought it might have been a fake 1 GB stick, but
still just deleted the partition and made it size the whole disk in
cfdisk - well at least I thought I did. The Linux kernel complained about
writing beyond end of device while mkfsing, I think it was an ext3.
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