Re: Why is SECTOR_SIZE = 512 inside kernel ?

[Brice Goglin]

Le 17/08/2015 15:54, Theodore Ts'o a écrit :
> 
> It's cast in stone.  There are too many places all over the kernel,
> especially in a huge number of file systems, which assume that the
> sector size is 512 bytes.  So above the block layer, the sector size
> is always going to be 512.

Could this be a problem when using pmem/nvdimm devices with
byte-granularity (no BTT layer)? (hw_sector_size reports
512 in this case while we could expect 1 instead).
Or it just doesn't matter because BTT is the only way to use
these devices for filesystems like other block devices?

thanks
Brice

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