> -----Original Message----- > From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of > Roger Pau Monné > Sent: 09 November 2017 09:30 > To: Mike Reardon <m...@inso.org> > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>; Jan Beulich > <jbeul...@suse.com>; xen-devel@lists.xen.org > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] blkback reporting incorrect number of > sectors, unable to boot > > Please try to avoid top-posting. > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:27:17PM -0700, Mike Reardon wrote: > > So am I correct in reading this that for at least the foreseeable future > > storage using 4k sector sizes is not gonna happen? I'm just trying to > > figure out if I need to get some different hardware. > > Have you tried to use qdisk instead of blkback for the storage > backend? > > You will have to change your disk configuration line to add > backendtype=qdisk.
From my reading qdisk (i.e. xen_disk.c in the QEMU source) hard-codes its block size to 512, but at least it looks like it won't mis-report the number of sectors. Paul > > Roger. > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel