linux-kernel - Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

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Message-ID: <20090226124339.GA10548@nb.net.home>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:43:39 +0100
From:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sandeen@...hat.com
Subject: Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:33:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> virtually every partition table format contains a sector size  
> dependency

 Is it true that "every partition table format"? I see in
 fs/partitions/ that only ibm.c and msdos.c care about a sector size.
 It seems that the others formats are based on 512 sectors only.

    Karel

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