Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752303AbYHAQMV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:12:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753463AbYHAQLx (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:11:53 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:53885 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753277AbYHAQLv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:11:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:11:49 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Matt Domsch Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , James Bottomley , Ric Wheeler , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jim Meyering , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes Message-ID: <20080801161149.GA26461@parisc-linux.org> References: <488F524F.6020905@redhat.com> <20080729182611.GB24924@parisc-linux.org> <1217356645.6103.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080730135147.GA4513@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080730135147.GA4513@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1203 Lines: 23 On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:51:47AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > I have access to disks with native 4KB sectors now too. Would > interested parties be willing to share test plans, so we could be sure > we have coverage wrt correctness: kernel internals, userspace tools like parted, > fdisk, kpartx, apps using O_DIRECT)? Benchmarking winds up being an > NDA activity this early in the game so I don't want the focus of any > joint work to be benchmarks yet. Are they SCSI? I just got round to trying 4k sector sizes in ata_ram (after adding file backed capability) and found that libata currently silently ignores the identify bits that report sector size. I'll work on fixing that this afternoon if nobody beats me to it. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/