From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6588e593ea315808130c7aa775bc3adc@hamnavoe.com> References: <6588e593ea315808130c7aa775bc3adc@hamnavoe.com> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:09:11 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175cd9b89d0dce04ae77f512 Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 312b152c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0015175cd9b89d0dce04ae77f512 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 no, i meant to select what the drive advertises. it would be a bit disconcerting if flipping a bit had to reformat a drive! On 4 October 2011 13:01, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > perhaps there's an option bit? > > If the drive was physically formatted with 4096-byte sectors, > I can't see how changing a logical bit could prevent unaligned > writes from causing a read-modify-write cycle. > > > --0015175cd9b89d0dce04ae77f512 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable no, i meant to select what the drive advertises. it would be a bit disconce= rting if flipping a bit had to reformat a drive!

On 4 October 2011 13:01, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> perhaps there's = an option bit?

If the drive was physically formatted with 4096-byte sectors,
I can't see how changing a logical bit could prevent unaligned
writes from causing a read-modify-write cycle.



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