Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262280AbTK3I7U (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:59:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262310AbTK3I7U (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:59:20 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:20352 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262280AbTK3I7H (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:59:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Andrew Clausen Cc: John Bradford , Andries Brouwer , Szakacsits Szabolcs , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <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> <20031129223103.GB505@gnu.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+8BTWesL3HCVRtpJbSVZ" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1070182676.5214.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:57:56 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-+8BTWesL3HCVRtpJbSVZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 23:31, Andrew Clausen wrote: > 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? >=20 > Intel's EFI GPT partition table format seems quite acceptable. EFI GPT has some severe downsides (like requiring the last sector on disk, which in linux may not be accessible if the total number of sectors is not a multiple of 2, and making dd of one disk to another impossible if the second one is bigger) --=-+8BTWesL3HCVRtpJbSVZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ybEUxULwo51rQBIRAs73AKCVgCTSiujCgnQBocOsiyronOXVEgCgmgTx cv9yhia5EE8CkRZif33wcLk= =ErpM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+8BTWesL3HCVRtpJbSVZ-- - 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/