aha/fs/partitions
Martin K. Petersen c72758f337 block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.

  logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.

  physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write
  without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.

  The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by
  the device.  In many cases this is the same as the physical block
  size.  However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking
  (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size).

  The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by
  the device.  This is usually the stripe width for arrays.

  The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start
  of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment.
  Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets
  so filesystems start on proper boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
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acorn.c
acorn.h
amiga.c
amiga.h
atari.c
atari.h
check.c block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions 2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
check.h
efi.c
efi.h
ibm.c block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size 2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
ibm.h
karma.c
karma.h
Kconfig
ldm.c
ldm.h
mac.c
mac.h
Makefile
msdos.c block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size 2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
msdos.h
osf.c
osf.h
sgi.c
sgi.h
sun.c
sun.h
sysv68.c
sysv68.h
ultrix.c
ultrix.h