+1, and good luck! On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:11 +0800, "Larry Liu" <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to propose a new OpenSolaris project called multiple disk > sector size support. This project is to enable Solaris to support disks > with variable sector size in powers of 2 starting at 512 bytes and upto > 4096 bytes, i.e: 1 KByte, 2KB or 4KB. > > The disk drive industry recognizes the need for a larger sector to > maintain data integrity as areal density increases in future drives. > Progressively more error correction code bytes are required at these > higher areal densities which would increase overhead and reduce > efficiency if the industry remained 512 byte sectors. A new sector > standard for magnetic hard disk drives, 4096 bytes, has been proposed > replacing the previous 512 byte sector length. IDEMA and its members > including Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi GST, and Fujitsu have advocated for a > new industry standard for large-block sectors. And the 4096 bytes sector > HDD will be released soon. > > This project is going to deliver large sector support into OpenSolaris > with two phases > > Phase 1 > Support both VTOC and EFI labels; > Support both raw and block disk IO; > Support ZFS on non-root disk; > Support XEN and LDOM on non-root disk > > Phase 2 > Boot support on large sector size disks. > Installer support on large sector size disks > > I'd like to request endorsement by the Storage Developer community. > > Project leaders: > > Larry Liu > Nikko He > Bo Zhou > Holly Vergara > Grant Zhang > > > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss -- Aaron Dailey [email protected]
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