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From: "Dorau, Lukasz" <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>
To: Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@fold.natur.cuni.cz>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:14:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D9FFE20C522965449E182ACE73889AEB1860718E@IRSMSX101.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F919B55.2020802@fold.natur.cuni.cz>

On Friday, April 20, 2012 7:22 PM Martin Mokrejs wrote:
> 
> Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>>> "Lukasz" == Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com> 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.
> >

Does it mean that I can just plug the 4K HDD in and it will work without making any changes in kernel?

Lukasz

> > 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.ht
> ml
> 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
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20 14:21 Support for 4 KiB disk sectors in Linux kernel Lukasz Dorau
2012-04-20 15:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-23 11:41   ` Dorau, Lukasz
2012-04-20 16:13 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-04-20 17:22   ` Martin Mokrejs
2012-04-23 11:44     ` Dorau, Lukasz
2012-04-27 12:14     ` Dorau, Lukasz [this message]
2012-04-27 12:30       ` Martin Mokrejs
2012-04-27 14:53       ` Dan Williams
2012-04-20 14:22 Lukasz Dorau

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