On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Theo de Raadt wrote:
are disks with logical sector sizes other than 512-bytes supported? I can
get basic functionality with a 4k-sector drive, still there are some
flaws. Does it make sense to report these bugs now, or is it too early?
Thanks for your very detailed question.
Detailed answer follows:
Detailed question once again:
Does it makes sense to report bugs concerning disks with other sector
sizes then 512 bytes now?
Explanation:
I met quite a few flaws when working with 4k-sector drives. I am not sure
if such drives are supported. If they are not supported yet and that what
works with these drives it works just by pure luck then it would be a
waste of developers' time and bandwith to report such shortcomings. If the
OS needs a complex work on non-512-bytes sector sizes a everybody knows
it, then reporting those bugs (which in fact would not be bugs, becasue
there is no "bug of unsupported feature") would not help anybody.
Simply put: shall I send any reports concerning 4k-sectors on -cuurent?
Thank you.
Regards,
David
