bug#24448: Interpretation of partition entry sizes on "4kn" disks

2016-09-19 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 01:54:37PM -0700, Cris Perdue wrote: > In partition tables, GPT entries specifically, there are 8 byte fields for > the first and last LBA of the partition. Traditionally logical blocks are > 512 bytes, but some new disks report sector sizes of up to 4096 bytes as > both log

bug#24448: Interpretation of partition entry sizes on "4kn" disks

2016-09-15 Thread Cris Perdue
In partition tables, GPT entries specifically, there are 8 byte fields for the first and last LBA of the partition. Traditionally logical blocks are 512 bytes, but some new disks report sector sizes of up to 4096 bytes as both logical and physical sector size. For these so-called 4kn disks, should