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

[Hillel Lubman]

On Tuesday, January 06, 2015 23:30:26 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/6/15 11:17 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote:
> 
> > I see. Indeed, on the drive where I get sectsz as 512 by default, blockdev --getss --getpbsz reports:
> > 
> > 512
> > 512
> 
> what kind of drive is this; is it usb, SATA, or ?
> 
> c) not sure why there are 2 different answers.  Knowing what kind of drive
> it is would be good; mkfs.xfs just uses whatever blkid says.
> 

One is a recent portable WD USB3 drive (elements) and another is a regular 3.5" internal AF WD black in an enclosure (also attached through USB3). I didn't recently test the case of a drive attached through regular SATA.

Regards,
Hillel.
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