Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261954AbVCNVgy (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:36:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261928AbVCNVgy (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:36:54 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42930 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261960AbVCNVfM (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:35:12 -0500 Message-ID: <42360385.4090203@osdl.org> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:35:01 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miquel van Smoorenburg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB References: <200503141644.j2EGiVh0000022634@mudpuddle.cs.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1077 Lines: 32 Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <200503141644.j2EGiVh0000022634@mudpuddle.cs.wustl.edu>, > Berkley Shands wrote: > >>I have not found any documentation of efforts to overcome the 2TB >>partition limit, > > > config LBD > bool "Support for Large Block Devices" > depends on X86 || MIPS32 || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31 || SUPERH > help > Say Y here if you want to attach large (bigger than 2TB) discs to > your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device > bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N. > > Mike. ISTR some mention or plan or idea of using EFI GUID partition table format, or something else that already existed & worked and supported larger partitions sizes. Maybe Peter Anvin or Andries would recall this info? -- ~Randy - 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/