Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 4 kilobytes sector disks

Introduction

Until recently all standard harddisks had 512 bytes sectors. But as the capacity of harddisks keeps growing having 512 bytes per sector does not really work very well for a variety of reasons.

Now harddisks with 4 kilobytes sectors have begun showing up on the market. Most firmware (BIOS-es, etc.) and software (operating systems) need to be modified to be able to w...