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< 1960 > 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 Kategoriar ▼ 1960 ► 1960 etter land ► 1960 etter verdsdel ► Døde i 1960 ► Fødde i 1960 ► Hendingar i 1960 ► Katastrofar i 1960 ► Kultur i 1960 ► Nedleggingar i 1960 ► Politikk i 1960 ► Samferdsle i 1960 ► Skip frå 1960 ► Skipingar i 1960 ► Sport i 1960 ► Vitskap i 1960 1960 i andre kalendrar Gregoriansk kalender 1960 MCMLX Ab urbe condita 2713 Armensk kalender 1409 ԹՎ ՌՆԹ Kinesisk kalender 4656 – 4657 ?亥 – 庚子 Etiopisk kalender 1952 – 1953 Jødisk kalender 5720 – 5721 Iransk kalender 1338 – 1339 Islamsk kalender 1380 – 1381 Hindukalendrar - Vikram Samvat 2015 – 2016 - Shaka Samvat 1882 – 1883 - Kali Yuga 5061 – 5062 1960 (romartal MCMLX) er blitt kalla Afrika-året (the Year of Africa) ett...

Is the default 512 byte physical sector size appropriate for SSD disks under Linux?

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.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0; } 9 GSmartControl and any other command line tool (like fdisk , smartctl , cat /sys/block/sd*/queue/hw_sector_size , cat /sys/block/sd*/queue/physical_block_size ) I had used report the same for both of my disks: Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical This is a default Ubuntu 18.10 (later upgraded to 19.04) installation. However, the stat -f command on both disks reports: Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096 Both of my disks are SSDs and AFAIK SSD disks require a sector size of 4K . Is this OK or am I missing something? Does the information returned by stat (=4K) ensure that the OS will always send IOs to the disk in multiple of 4K a...