Am Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:02:16 +0100 schrieb Piotr Szturmaj <[email protected]>:
> Anytime you read one byte from typical hard disk, system reads full > sector - typically 512 bytes, no more, no less. Side note: HDD manufacturers recently switched to 4 KiB sectors (8x size). Everyone who bypasses operating system buffers to do raw disk access now needs to query the system for optimal buffer alignment. -- Marco
