Re: File systems on 4k sector devices?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> But that also means that you cannot copy an encrypted image to
> a disk with different geometry. Someone has decide wether that's
> worthwhile. In that case you can either build a blocking/deblocking
> layer into cgd (ugly) or define that larger blocks are split into
> individually encrypted chunks of 512 bytes.

I believe either way, there are atomicity issues.  A converter might be
in order or, as Christos suggested to me privately, just require the
user to mount both disks and restore the data through the filesystem.

Thor