From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 15:35:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B261065673 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51568FC16 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:41e8:4158:889c:9c05] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:41e8:4158:889c:9c05]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 881515C59; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:35:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4BBDF7D3.3050300@andric.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:35:47 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100404 Lanikai/3.1b2pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de References: <1A417529-F467-4411-970A-3FF41080AC61@lexasoft.ru> <868w8yukuy.fsf@ds4.des.no> <6313EB8E-D3DA-459F-A372-0E871359FA1C@lexasoft.ru> <86zl1et4rv.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86mxxet437.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86eiiqt3kp.fsf@ds4.des.no> <846676C4-C1B8-44DB-AA01-B664614DE59F@lexasoft.ru> <20100408172421.62d73a90@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20100408172421.62d73a90@ernst.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?av?= , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgr?=, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexey Tarasov Subject: Re: gpart and sector size X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:35:39 -0000 On 2010-04-08 17:24, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >>> References >>> The ATA8-ACS and SBC-3 standards have provisions for a disk drive to report Advanced Format sector sizes and other performance optimization information. These standards are used for SATA, SAS, USB, and IEEE 1394 based interface technologies. >> > > This is apparently the Long Physical Sector features set. The question is > whether it's been implemented. Isn't this already done? At least it looks like it: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=198897 It might even have been MFC'd... :)