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2020 Feb 11
2
[PATCH v2] lib: add support for disks with 4096 bytes sector size
...C<blocksize>
+
+This parameter sets the sector size of the disk. Possible values are
+C<512> (the default if the parameter is omitted) or C<4096>. Use
+C<4096> when handling an \"Advanced Format\" disk that uses 4K sector
+size (L<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format>).
+
+Only a subset of the backends support this parameter (currently only the
+libvirt and direct backends do).
+
=back" };
{ defaults with
@@ -558,6 +568,10 @@ Disks with the E<lt>readonly/E<gt> flag are skipped.
=back
+If present, the value of C<logical_block_s...
2020 Feb 10
1
[PATCH] lib: allow to specify physical/logical block size for disks
From: Nikolay Ivanets <stenavin@gmail.com>
Nowadays there are hard drives and operating systems which support
"4K native" sector size. In this mode physical and logical block size
exposed to the operating system is equal to 4096 bytes.
GPT partition table (as a known example) being created in this mode will
place GPT header at LBA1 which is 4096 bytes. libguetfs is unable to