On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Alexander Boström wrote: > > ons 2010-03-10 klockan 15:57 -0600 skrev Eric Sandeen: > > > >> There has been a lot of work upstream on 4k sector support, and in general > >> yes, we are ready. > > > > Problems can probably be expected in case the drive does not report its > > real block size to the software, though, like my WD15EARS (I think) or > > VMware's emulated SCSI drives. > > There's only so much we can do in the face of bad hardware ;)
How about making it possible to overwrite the wrong reported values, e.g. by making /sys/block/sdb/queue/[physical_block_size writable,minimum_io_size} writable. Regards Till
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