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Date: Tue,  4 Oct 2011 08:34:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk
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> i had in mind something that would make the drive look as much like an old
> drive as possible,
> including lying about simply everything, including the underlying physical
> sector size. surely that's
> suitable for the PC heritage.

we used to care what the c/h/s of a drive was.  now we don't.  anything with
a raid underneath or flash memory is going to lie about the sector/erase block
size.  the writing is on the wall.  logical sector size != physical sector size.

- erik