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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:58:43 +0200
From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
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On Tue, Mar 25 2008 at 20:09 +0200, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> 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.
> 
I thinks intel-Macs do too.

Boaz

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