Re: NetBSD & disks with 4K sector size

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:

> gdt%lexort.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) writes:
>
>>mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:
>>> The xbd driver lies about the sector size and always reports 512byte
>>> sectors. If you pass through a 4k sector host disk, this make some
>>> I/O operations fail.
>
>>What do you suggest we do?
>
> I suggested to make it tell the truth, all data is provided by the
> backend. Then it just works like other drivers.

Thanks - I have run that up the flagpole on port-xen,  with status

  EWOULDBLOCK|ENOPATCH

and hopefully that async call will return successfully!