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SubjectRe: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:48:31PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:
>
> James> The problem, which ata_ram also suffers, is that the tools we
> James> most need to test are the ones for manipulating non volatile
> James> characteristics (like partition tables). We'd really like the
> James> disk contents to survive reboot for this ...
>
> Yeah, I should add that I wanted persistence too. I went through a
> whole stack (well, 5-6 or so) fibre channel drives from various
> vendors and attempted to low-level format them to 4KB sectors. Most
> of them laughed in my face. One of them tried to comply and
> irreparably confused its firmware in the process.
>
> Just yesterday I received a couple of prototype drives in the mail.
> I'll ask the vendor whether they support 4KB and if so I'll give them
> a whirl.

I have access to disks with native 4KB sectors now too. Would
interested parties be willing to share test plans, so we could be sure
we have coverage wrt correctness: kernel internals, userspace tools like parted,
fdisk, kpartx, apps using O_DIRECT)? Benchmarking winds up being an
NDA activity this early in the game so I don't want the focus of any
joint work to be benchmarks yet.

--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


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