Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:14:12 +1000
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: johann.lombardi@free.fr, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Unsupported sector size
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:15:21PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hm, sector_size is gleaned from the underlying block device, via
> xfs_getsize_buftarg, which calls block_size, which gets
> bdev->bd_block_size.
> 
> so, the message you got is correct I think - the filesystem was made

The message is indeed correct.  You should have got a warning
from mkfs.xfs when you created the filesystem flagging this as
a problem too - did you?  (cos if not, thats a driver bug that
should be fixed).

> with 512b sectors, your device supports only 4k sectors.  hence:
> 
> XFS: device supports only 4096 byte sectors (not 512)

cheers.

-- 
Nathan