Sector size of 4096 bytes (not 512)

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:43:34AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <48B3A11C.6030504 at gmail.com>, Sten Daniel Soersdal writes:
> >
> >Does anyone know if i might run into any surprises if my hdd has 4096 
> >byte sized sectors and not the regular 512, it is low-level formatted 
> >that way.
> 
> That's no problem, as long as the sectorsize is a power of two, larger
> than or equal to 512, you should have no trouble.

Also, sector shouldn't be larger than page size, because once you place
UFS on such thing, mmap(2) will stop working, AFAIR.

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