Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263983AbTK2W0v (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:26:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264375AbTK2W0v (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:26:51 -0500 Received: from mail018.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.72]:64217 "EHLO mail018.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263983AbTK2W0u (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:26:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:31:03 +1100 From: Andrew Clausen To: John Bradford Cc: Andries Brouwer , Szakacsits Szabolcs , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX Message-ID: <20031129223103.GB505@gnu.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311291350.hATDo0CY001142@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> X-Accept-Language: en,pt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:50:00PM +0000, John Bradford wrote: > 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? Intel's EFI GPT partition table format seems quite acceptable. Cheers, Andrew - 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/