Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. | | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | | Date | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:34:47 -0500 |
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>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.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
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