linux-kernel - Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

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Message-ID: <4BA038CB.8050400@kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:04:59 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
CC:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-ide@...r.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, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	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
Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

Hello, Ric.

On 03/17/2010 05:42 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Dropping any mention of CHS seems to be the only sensible thing. Why
> waste any time to continue some myth about drives that no modern
> hardware supports (and then have the joy of explaining that to users)?
> 
> Talking about it only confuses people and in the worst case, could cause
> them to misalign their partitions by clinging to these pretend borders :-)

I don't think not mentioning it would clear up the myth.  It would
probably be a good idea to beef up the document to clear
misconceptions around disk geometry.  I'll give a shot at it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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