Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:09:10 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
       Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
       Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
       Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:52:28AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the Linux Kernel support is for GPTs.
> 
> It's implemented.  Not sure about how well used/tested it is.

ia64 uses it exclusively ... at least on discs that you want to use from
EFI.

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