What is a recommended XFS sector size for hybrid (512e) advanced format hard drives?

[Chris Murphy]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net> wrote:
> however, some drives lie about these sizes, and then mkfs.xfs can't know.
> Try the blockdev command above to see.

blockdev and parted seem to get this wrong for a device for which
smartctl and hdparm get correct


smartctl -a reports:
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
hdparm -I reports:
Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes

parted reports:
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

# blockdev --getss /dev/sdc
512
# blockdev --getpbsz /dev/sdc
512

And thus xfs_info on this device says sectsz=512 since I formatted
with defaults.



-- 
Chris Murphy