Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762769AbYHEQ6A (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:58:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762772AbYHEQ5N (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:57:13 -0400 Received: from ausxippc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.207]:60805 "EHLO ausxippc101.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762734AbYHEQ5L (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:57:11 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: s=smtpout; d=dell.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References: Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To: User-Agent; b=rG+4y7yv39b43I1UVFjtvIOitghImDMlnHpkYA62m2y/zTtZ8jZt8AWo CxPuGBEB2dLrs0UwO9SYydYMVvFNJjfexQzzxX2T24vP/hhZG9UE2702V q3c0FLZjNYkAIFW; Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:57:10 -0500 From: Matt Domsch To: Matthew Wilcox 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: <20080805165710.GA5648@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> References: <488F524F.6020905@redhat.com> <20080729182611.GB24924@parisc-linux.org> <1217356645.6103.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080730135147.GA4513@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20080801161149.GA26461@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080801161149.GA26461@parisc-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 22 On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 10:11:49AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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? yes (SAS). -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- 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/