25 Apr
2011
25 Apr
'11
18:43
Feature changed by: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer)
Feature #312273, revision 2
Title: fix bug in yast disk
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Mandatory
Requested by: Andrew Joakimsen (joak0)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
+ Summary Description yast-partitioner was updated for 11.3 and newer to
+ stop using CHS information as its primary partition alignment strategy.
+ The user interface was never updated to match. The user interface for
+ yast2-partitioner should be updated to allow the user to select legacy
+ CHS presentation and the more modern presentation units of sectors /
+ MBs / GBs or other units more appropriate to raid strides.
+ Original Description
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:14, Greg Freemyer
wrote: > Andrew, > > Is there a openfate proposal? They are easy to
create. Any opensuse > user with a login can do it. > > Since this is
not a bug, just a functionality change proposal, > bugzilla is not the
right place. > > Greg > > On 4/18/11, Greg Freemyer wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Andrew
Joakimsen >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at
06:18, David Haller wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> On
Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Andrew Joakimsen wrote: >>>>>understands what is
going on can make sure it is setup properly. There >>>>>is no formula
to convert from cylinders to sectors! >>>> >>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector#CHS_to_LBA_mapping >>>>
>>>>>This issue is also affecting newer/larger hard drives. And these
>>>>>without a doubt have 4kb sectors but everything in opensuse shows
512 >>>>>bytes! >>>> >>>> The _drives_ don't tell their real sector
sizes! >>>> >>>> # /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sdb >>>> [..] >>>> Model
Number: SAMSUNG HD204UI >>>> [..] >>>> LBA48 user addressable sectors:
3907029168 >>>> Logical Sector size: 512 bytes >>>> Physical Sector
size: 512 bytes >>>> >>>> This is what the disk tells via the ATA
interface. And yes, that is >>>> a disk with 4K physical sectors, which
is why I partitioned aligned >>>> to 4K. There is just no way for Yast
or any other tool to know. One >>>> could create a database of 4K-disks
reporting 512B sectors though. >>>> >>> >>> Right that's what I said
basically and hence my proposal that Yast >>> shows disks in the
relevant unit of "sectors" and not the antiquated >>> useless term of
"cylinders." If you know your disk needs to be aligned >>> to X size
sectors you can calculate it yourself and set it up with no >>> hassle.
>>> >>> But in the current arragement, since there's no universal
formula to >>> convert cylinders to sectors and yast only shows the
former, you need >>> to e.g. boot a live CD, create your partitions
with some clunky 3rd >>> party tool and then do your installation. >>
>> If you'll post the openFATE link to your proposal, I'll add my vote.
- >> >> Greg >> > The current functionality is a bug and I have long ago
- reported it as such. Disks are addressed by logical sectors this
- millenium. It's a bug to show an obsolete, not-convertible unit. serves
- no purpose unit. The fix to that bug is to show the relevant unit. --
- Med Vennlig Hilsen, A. Helge Joakimsen
+ >> >> Greg >> >
+ The current functionality is a bug and I have long ago reported it as
+ such. Disks are addressed by logical sectors this millenium. It's a bug
+ to show an obsolete, not-convertible unit. serves no purpose unit. The
+ fix to that bug is to show the relevant unit. -- Med Vennlig Hilsen,
+ A. Helge Joakimsen
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/312273