On Wednesday 04 July 2007 07:37:24 am Jim Meyering wrote: > "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 remember: the industry is moving to very large sector sizes, so this really DOES need supported. > > 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 _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
