Re: Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel

[Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Lukasz" == Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Lukasz> Where can I find information about current status of support for
> Lukasz> 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel?  Is there a
> Lukasz> leader/maintainer of this issue in community?
> 
> We have supported 4Kn for a decade. 512e obviously works out of the
> box. However, filesystem/partition/DM tooling has been updated to align
> correctly on 512e devices.
> 
> See:
> 
> 	http://oss.oracle.com/~mkp/docs/linux-advanced-storage.pdf

Also:

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/articles/a/t/a/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues_d4b8.html
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Windows_Writes_To_MBR
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2


I agree there is nothing about under Documentation/ in kernel sources, at least
from users point of view.
Martin
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