Avi Kivity wrote:
> Physical block size is the what the logical block size would have been
> is software didn't suck. In theory they should be the same, but since
> compatibility reaons clamp the logical block size to 512, they have to
> differ. A disk may have a physical block size of 4096 an
Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/05/2010 02:56 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> >>Those should be the same for any sane interface. They are for classical
> >>disk devices with larger block sizes (MO, s390 dasd) and also for the
> >>now appearing 4k sector scsi disks. But in the ide world people are
> >>co
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:00:35 pm Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:38:51PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I thought this was what I was doing, but I have shown over and over that
> > I have no idea about block devices.
> >
> > Our current driver treats BLK_SIZE as the logical an
On 01/05/2010 02:56 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
>> Those should be the same for any sane interface. They are for classical
>> disk devices with larger block sizes (MO, s390 dasd) and also for the
>> now appearing 4k sector scsi disks. But in the ide world people are
>> concerned about dos/window l
