> I must look at how to determine that disks have 4k sectors and to > ensure filesystesm have 4k fragments - regardless of the fs size.
Seems to me the right thing is to believe what the disk tells you. If you really want to be friendly to broken hardware, add a quirk for disks known to lie about their sector size. (Yes, I consider it broken for a disk to lie about its sector size.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
