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From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
To: peter@chubb.wattle.id.au
cc: pavel@ucw.cz, viro@math.psu.edu, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: 2.5.28 and partitions
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:38:24 -0500
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> Matt> What's wrong with EFI GUID scheme (GPT) (other than it wasn't
> Matt> invented by Linux folks)?
> 
> Nothing, except it's not used on all platforms yet.

(set boot issues aside for now)
It could.  I use it on x86 and IA-64 now.  I think Richard Hirst found the
last (knock on wood) of my endianness bugs about 6 months ago, so I know it
works on BE and LE non-Intel machines.  It's in the partitioning menu, not
specific to arch.  The only arch dependency in code is on asm-ia64/efi.h for
some typedefs, which is annoying but not hard to fix if desired (move
relevant bits to include/linux/efi.h).

> For my machines the *only* reason for having a legacy partitioning
> scheme is to allow booting.

As you point out, booting is BIOS-specific.  So for now boot a disk with a
native scheme (where your OS resides already) and mount that 64XB file
system for data afterwords.  By the time that doesn't work, 32-bit CPUs will
be dead anyhow.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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