[syslinux] [PATCH 3/3] 4k_sector: Fix ADV in adv.inc

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Feb 13 10:06:25 PST 2013


On 02/13/2013 08:51 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Add offset to adv sectors.
> If sector size is greater than adv size you need an additional offset
> to specify which sector part contains the information.
>
> This patch does not support BTRFS (that will work only using 512 as sector
> size).
>

No, this is bad.

We really should just increase the ADV to 4K, being the largest sector 
size in common use.

We don't want to end up with both the ADV and the backup ADV in the same 
sector -- that is bad news.

	-hpa

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