Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

[H. Peter Anvin]

Karel Zak wrote:
> 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.
> 

And do they do so correctly?

Looking at the UEFI spec for one, the GPT partition table format
definitely has a logical sector size dependency.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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