Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:17:29 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gjournal alignment on 4K sector advanced format drives Message-ID: <AANLkTi=4bfHDiA8Z6mGg__TMmer32FPOQbfMrCebGQcL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100901091919.GA98434@icarus.home.lan> References: <4C7CE2D0.40400@telus.net> <4C7E18CB.7020400@telus.net> <20100901091919.GA98434@icarus.home.lan>
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > Can't you just set the jumper on the drive to us 512-byte sectors? > I mean, that's what it's there for... The jumper doesn't change the reported sector size. All it does is change the internal offset used by 1, so that the first partition created by Windows XP starts at physical (512 B) sector 64 instead of sector 63 (although it's still logical sector 63), which aligns it to a 4 KB boundary. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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