Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269008AbTGOQxe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:53:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269012AbTGOQxe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:53:34 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:43280 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269008AbTGOQxR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:53:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:08:04 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030715170804.GA1089@win.tue.nl> References: <20030711155613.GC2210@gtf.org> <20030711203850.GB20970@win.tue.nl> <20030715000331.GB904@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030715000331.GB904@matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 19 On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB? If so, then we won't have > a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB. People are encountering that limit already. We need something better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/