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Description of problem:
O_DIRECT (cache=none) requires sector size alignment and size for IO requests,
which is currently hard coded within QEMU to be 512, ie. the most common
sector size.

New hard drives will have 4k sectors, and is one of the things we explicitly
list as a feature in RHEL6.

We need to examine the scope of this problem and determine whether it is 
indeed a real problem. If it is, users will face unexplained errors when
trying to run KVM with images on 4k drives.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
To be determined

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected results:


Additional info:
We need to locate a/some 4k sector hard drives to test whether this is
indeed an issue.

This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

** If you would still like this issue considered for the current
release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on
your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. **

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608548 ***