On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 08:48:07 +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > To fix this the CGD would need to fully emulate a 512 byte drive, regardless > of sector size, actually doing RMW cycles to allow updating 512 bytes in the > middle of a 4K sector (or whatever size it happens to be.)
Would it make sense to create a separate layered device that converts the block size of its underlying device? At least that would separate the problem and make it simpler. And it might be useful in its own right, for instance when you dd a file system image to a drive with different blocksize. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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