Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

Karel Zak wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:33:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
virtually every partition table format contains a sector size
dependency

Is it true that "every partition table format"? I see in
fs/partitions/ that only ibm.c and msdos.c care about a sector size.
It seems that the others formats are based on 512 sectors only.


And do they do so correctly?

Looking at the UEFI spec for one, the GPT partition table format
definitely has a logical sector size dependency.

-hpa

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