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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:34:47 -0500 From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, "linux-ide\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@....com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>, tytso@....edu, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, irtiger@...il.com, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, aschnell@...e.de, knikanth@...e.de, jdelvare@...e.de Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. >>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> writes: hpa> I would very much like a reference for a platform which has hpa> firmware which can successfully boot from 4K-logical media. It hpa> would be very useful for bootloader testing. I have yet to find one. hpa> Aligning partitions is something we should have done long ago. It hpa> affects RAID and many flash drives just as much or more than hpa> 4K-sectored disks. Yup. hpa> As far as partitioning... I believe we should be using GPT hpa> partition tables where possible. Even on non-EFI systems, it's hpa> simply a much better partition table format. Agreed. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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