What is a recommended XFS sector size for hybrid (512e) advanced format hard drives?
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at sandeen.net
Tue Jan 6 13:23:42 CST 2015
On 1/6/15 1:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 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
I don't think they get it wrong, they are just reporting what the
drive says over that interface.
I ... don't actually know where smartctl/hdparm get the values, vs.
the values exported to blockdev. Is the drive reporting different
values over different query interfaces? Hrm.
mkfs.xfs uses the same interface as used by blockdev.
-Eric
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