Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270112AbTGPECP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:02:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270114AbTGPECP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:02:15 -0400 Received: from c210-49-26-171.randw1.nsw.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.26.171]:32421 "EHLO mail.chubb.wattle.id.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270112AbTGPECO (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:02:14 -0400 From: Peter Chubb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16148.53643.475710.301248@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:16:11 +1000 To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' In-Reply-To: <20030715170804.GA1089@win.tue.nl> References: <20030711155613.GC2210@gtf.org> <20030711203850.GB20970@win.tue.nl> <20030715000331.GB904@matchmail.com> <20030715170804.GA1089@win.tue.nl> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 13) "Rational FORTRAN" XEmacs Lucid Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.18. X-Face: GgFg(Z>fx((4\32hvXq<)|jndSniCH~~$D)Ka:P@e@JR1P%Vr}EwUdfwf-4j\rUs#JR{'h# !]])6%Jh~b$VA|ALhnpPiHu[-x~@<"@Iv&|%R)Fq[[,(&Z'O)Q)xCqe1\M[F8#9l8~}#u$S$Rm`S9% \'T@`:&8>Sb*c5d'=eDYI&GF`+t[LfDH="MP5rwOO]w>ALi7'=QJHz&y&C&TE_3j! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 27 >>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer writes: Andries> 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 Andries> Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with Andries> 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB. Andries> People are encountering that limit already. We need something Andries> better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something. We had this discussion before, back when I first submitted the large block device patches. The consensus then was to use EFI, or LDM. Unless the BIOS supports a partitioning scheme, you're not going to be able to boot anyway, or at least not without doing something clever. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all slightly different. - 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/