gjournal alignment on 4K sector advanced format drives

[Freddie Cash]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> Can't you just set the jumper on the drive to us 512-byte sectors?
> I mean, that's what it's there for...

The jumper doesn't change the reported sector size.  All it does is
change the internal offset used by 1, so that the first partition
created by Windows XP starts at physical (512 B) sector 64 instead of
sector 63 (although it's still logical sector 63), which aligns it to
a 4 KB boundary.

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Freddie Cash
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