From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Mokrejs Subject: Re: Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:22:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4F919B55.2020802@fold.natur.cuni.cz> References: <4F9170FB.7080208@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fold.natur.cuni.cz ([195.113.57.32]:32788 "HELO fold.natur.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753310Ab2DTRTY (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:19:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Lukasz Dorau , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "Lukasz" == Lukasz Dorau writes: > > Lukasz> Where can I find information about current status of support for > Lukasz> 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel? Is there a > Lukasz> leader/maintainer of this issue in community? > > We have supported 4Kn for a decade. 512e obviously works out of the > box. However, filesystem/partition/DM tooling has been updated to align > correctly on 512e devices. > > See: > > http://oss.oracle.com/~mkp/docs/linux-advanced-storage.pdf Also: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/articles/a/t/a/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues_d4b8.html http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Windows_Writes_To_MBR https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 I agree there is nothing about under Documentation/ in kernel sources, at least from users point of view. Martin