> The 64KB Btrfs bootloader pad is 8 sector aligned, so for 512e AF disks > there's no problem formatting the whole drive. The alignment problem > actually happens when partitioning it, using old partition tools that don't > align on 8 sector boundaries. There are some such tools still floating > around.
A 'somewhat' related question: So called Advanced Format drives has 4K physical sector size, however they report 512B logical sector size. How does linux kernel access those drives? 512B or 4K at a time? Imran -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html