On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>
> Three questions:
> 1) Shouldn't the manual page says that the sector size of always 512 Bytes,
> even on new disks with larger sectors?
> 2) Should the real sector size be used for new disks?
The HDD industry is using 512 byte
Hi!
I'm wondering (on a x86_64 SLES11 system):
"man 4 sd" says:
---
BLKGETSIZE
Returns the device size in sectors. The ioctl(2) parameter
should be a pointer to a long.
---
/usr/src/linux/block/ioctl.c (3.0.101-0.15) reads:
---
case BLKGETSIZE:
Hi!
I'm wondering (on a x86_64 SLES11 system):
man 4 sd says:
---
BLKGETSIZE
Returns the device size in sectors. The ioctl(2) parameter
should be a pointer to a long.
---
/usr/src/linux/block/ioctl.c (3.0.101-0.15) reads:
---
case BLKGETSIZE:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
Three questions:
1) Shouldn't the manual page says that the sector size of always 512 Bytes,
even on new disks with larger sectors?
2) Should the real sector size be used for new disks?
The HDD industry is using 512 byte logical
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