Re: btrfs on whole disk (no partitions)

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> The 64KB Btrfs bootloader pad is 8 sector aligned, so for 512e AF disks
> there's no problem formatting the whole drive. The alignment problem
> actually happens when partitioning it, using old partition tools that don't
> align on 8 sector boundaries. There are some such tools still floating
> around.

A 'somewhat' related question:

So called Advanced Format drives has 4K physical sector size,
however they report 512B logical sector size.

How does linux kernel access those drives?
512B or 4K at a time?

Imran
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