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Re: NetBSD and 4k sectors



gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) writes:

>Do you really mean that the disk interface does 4KB operations, or just
>a disk that has 4K sectors internally but still operates as if it is
>512.  The 4K/512 ones (totally normal) work fine; you just have to align
>partitions to start at a multiple of 8*512, and it's good to use
>blocksize/fragsize of 32K/4K in FFS (default near 1T anyway).

>If you mean a device with native 4K sectors that presents a 4K
>interface, that's a good question.


Drivers and Filesystems (well, those that are capable of handling
large sectors by design) have been checked/fixed a long time ago.

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