Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

hpa> I would very much like a reference for a platform which has
hpa> firmware which can successfully boot from 4K-logical media.  It
hpa> would be very useful for bootloader testing.

I have yet to find one.


hpa> Aligning partitions is something we should have done long ago.  It
hpa> affects RAID and many flash drives just as much or more than
hpa> 4K-sectored disks.

Yup.


hpa> As far as partitioning... I believe we should be using GPT
hpa> partition tables where possible.  Even on non-EFI systems, it's
hpa> simply a much better partition table format.

Agreed.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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