Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263460AbTK2OCR (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:02:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263764AbTK2OCQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:02:16 -0500 Received: from as13-5-5.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.179.23]:39112 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263460AbTK2OCP (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:02:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3FC8A77B.9020806@stesmi.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:04:43 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bradford CC: Andries Brouwer , Szakacsits Szabolcs , Andrew Clausen , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX References: <20031128045854.GA1353@home.woodlands> <20031128142452.GA4737@win.tue.nl> <20031129022221.GA516@gnu.org> <20031129123451.GA5372@win.tue.nl> <200311291350.hATDo0CY001142@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200311291350.hATDo0CY001142@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. > Why don't we take the opporunity to make all CHS code configurable out > of the kernel, and define a new, more compact, partition table format > which used LBA exclusively, and allowed more than four partitions in > the main partition table? > > I know it sounds pointless to define a new partitioning scheme when > there are so many already in existance, but for dedicated Linux > machines, only being able to define four partitions without resorting > to 'extended' partitions, which store there partitioning data in other > parts of the disk, is a needless limitation. We could also ensure > that there is sufficient magic in the partition table to make > identifying it easy and reliable. Then just select a partitioning scheme that fills those features you request instead, as you say - there are very many out there and you're bound to find at least ONE that has those features (I can name a few straight off) :) // Stefan - 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/