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From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:30:11PM +0300, Благодаренко Артём wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Any thoughts about this change? Thanks.

I'm trying to think of situations where this could actually trigger in
real life.  The only one I can think of is if a file system with a 1k
block file system is located on an an Advanced FormatDrive with a 4k
sector size.

What was the use case where this was actually an issue?

     	     	      	    	     - Ted