> We have a custom storage controller. It has configurable sector_size.
> When configured to 1K, fdisk goes through ok. Buf mkfs gives errors shown
> below.
>
> Does Linux kernel support non 512 sector_size. Does tools
> mkfs/fsck and filesystems run properly on such storage devices?
They do. You need to tell them to use that block size sometimes. Eg fdisk
needs to be told to use 1K block scaling
> SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 9 lun 0 return code = 8000002
> Info fld=0x10f5a9c, Current sd08:01: sense key Illegal Request
or you run off the end of the disk 8)
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