RE: PDC arrays > 2 TB and non 512 byte dm sector size

Mark-Willem Jansen <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:45:49 +0100
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> Date: Wed=2C 21 Nov 2012 15:19:29 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: PDC arrays > 2 TB and non 512 byte dm sector size
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> On 11/12/2012 08:16 PM=2C Phillip Susi wrote:
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> > It appears that PDC arrays > 2 TB pretend they have > 512 byte sector
> > sizes.  I'm trying to figure out how to patch dmraid to support this
> > but I'm not sure how to tell device-mapper to use a different sector
> > size.  Is this possible?
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> No=2C dm goes by hard sector sizes=2C not pretended ones.

Does md support variable sector sizes. That will give me another reason to =
finish the super-pdc.c for mdadm.
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&gt=3B Date: Wed=2C 21 Nov 2012 15:19:29 +0100<br><div>&gt=3B From: heinzm@=
redhat.com<br>&gt=3B To: [email protected]<br>&gt=3B Subject: Re: PDC=
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 byte sector<br>&gt=3B &gt=3B sizes.  I'm trying to figure out how to patch=
 dmraid to support this<br>&gt=3B &gt=3B but I'm not sure how to tell devic=
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