From: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect'
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:14:31 -0500
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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:08, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 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

I would suggest the GPT format. It was originally designed for use with the 
IA-64 EFI firmware, but works just fine on any other architecture. It's 
64-bit, so no 2 TB limitations. It also avoids the primary vs. extended vs. 
logical partition weirdness that DOS has.

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Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
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