[parted-devel] 4K sector and alignment support?
Jeff Garzik
jeff at garzik.org
Fri Dec 7 08:10:39 UTC 2007
xerces8 wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jeff at garzik.org>
>
>> Therefore, it is critical that partition alignment matches internal ATA
>> disk sector alignment, when these 1K and 4K drives come out.
>
> Hi!
>
> Doesn't linux use 1k logical sector/block size for ages ?
sector size and block size are two very different things.
sector size is a hardware attribute, block size is purely a software.
> Just curious, will/does linux support those sector sizes "natively",
> that is visible inside and outside of kernel ?
It already does.
Jeff
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