[parted-devel] Failure with O_DIRECT

[Leslie P. Polzer]

>> No, the plan is to keep logical sector sizes at 512 for
>> compatibility.
>
> Which/whose plan?

The bigsector.org initiative's plan, which includes the big hard-disk
vendors.  Again, please see their site, they have a bunch of content
there.


> For some disks (ipods I think, and some CDs), sector_size
> is already being set to 2048.

Indeed, but not ATA hard drives.


> :)
> I know that very well.  I'm in the process of fixing it (big job!).
> Nearly everything breaks via stack-smashing with sector_size > 512.

I did a bit of work on this back then, but I left it far from completion.

  Leslie