Are 4kN Advanced Format (4 KiB logical sector) disks supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
- Does RHEL support both 4kb (4096 byte) and 512 byte sector sizes or only one of them? Is so, what versions of the OS?
- Are SCSI 4 KiB sector disks supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
- Are ATA 4 KiB sector disks supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
- Are ATA 4 KiB sector issues addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
- Are 512e disks (using 4096 byte sector sizes internally while speaking 512 byte sector sizes to extern) supported?
- Are Advanced Format 512e or 4kN (4k native) disks supported in RHEL?
- What are the supported block sizes for RHEL6?
- What are the supported block sizes for RHEL5?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Advanced Format 4kN disks (4KiB/4KiB physical/logical sector size)
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