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Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront/back and sector size of 2048 with CDROM's

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront/back and sector size of 2048 with CDROM's
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:19:45 +0000
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James Harper, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 11:09:42 +1100, a écrit :
> Do the pages passed between the front and backend scale to using
> different sector sizes,

The backend decides which sector size to be used, so

> or do I have to do some magic to fudge them back to 512?

Yes.

Samuel

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