Bug#661580: mkfs.xfs fails to detect correct sector size

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Package: xfsprogs
Version: 3.1.7
Severity: important
File: /sbin/mkfs.xfs

Hi,

since I recently bought a harddisk with 4K sector size I've been
checking for correct alignment and blocksizes in various things. One
of them being xfs.

When I partition the disk in parted it shows correctly to have a
logical blocksize of 512 byte and physical blocksize of 4096 byte.
But mkfs.xfs does not detect that the physical blocksize is 4096 byte
and creates a filesystem with:

meta-data=/dev/sde1              isize=256    agcount=32, agsize=22892696 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=732566272, imaxpct=5
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=357698, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0


This often results in access to the disk that is not aligned to the
blocksize with the resulting degradation in performance.

Further, manually selecting the right sector size of 4096 still causes
lots of unaligned access while formating and while mounting the
filesystem. It does seem to fix the problem for actual use though.

MfG
	Goswin

-- System Information:
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Versions of packages xfsprogs depends on:
ii  libblkid1     2.20.1-1
ii  libc6         2.13-21 
ii  libreadline5  5.2-11  
ii  libuuid1      2.19.1-5

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Versions of packages xfsprogs suggests:
pn  acl      2.2.51-4  
pn  attr     1:2.4.46-3
pn  quota    <none>    
pn  xfsdump  <none>    

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