On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:47:06AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > I have a hard disk with a "512e" sector size: emulated 512, really 4096. > > The disk returns a 512-byte size to drivers for compatibility. > > I can partition the disk and setup the allocation size > to 4096, but I'd like to tell the kernel to use a > virtual-size of 4096 for the sector as an additional > performance 'hint', so nothing will even try to use > smaller i/o's than that.
Just format the filesystem with 4k sector size. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
