"Leslie P. Polzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> sector_size is the drive's logical sector size. >> >> This must be a multiple of phys_sector_size, right? > > No, the plan is to keep logical sector sizes at 512 for > compatibility.
Which/whose plan? For some disks (ipods I think, and some CDs), sector_size is already being set to 2048. > And IIRC, ATAPI gives the physical sector size as a multiple of the > logical. > > >> ...when using a regular file (init_file), sector_size is set >> to PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT unconditionally, regardless of the >> underlying file system block size. But here, it matters for >> O_DIRECT on losing (e.g. 2.4.x) systems. > > Yeah, it might be way better to make this the underlying file system's > block size. But beware, I don't know how well stuff currently works > with block sizes (be they physical or logical) != 512. Especially > the msdos label format isn't going to take it. :) 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. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
