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From: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect'
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:14:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307151614.31863.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030715170804.GA1089@win.tue.nl>

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:08, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB?  If so, then we won't have
> > a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives
>
> Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with
> 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB.
>
> People are encountering that limit already. We need something
> better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something.
>
> Andries

I would suggest the GPT format. It was originally designed for use with the 
IA-64 EFI firmware, but works just fine on any other architecture. It's 
64-bit, so no 2 TB limitations. It also avoids the primary vs. extended vs. 
logical partition weirdness that DOS has.

-- 
Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-15 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-11 14:02 2.5 'what to expect' Dave Jones
2003-07-11 14:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 14:46   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-11 15:00     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 15:11       ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-11 15:37         ` Steven Cole
2003-07-11 17:19           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 17:51           ` Brian Gerst
2003-07-12 10:34             ` Dave Jones
2003-07-11 14:55   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-07-11 15:58     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 16:23       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-07-11 17:02         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 17:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-11 20:43     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-11 15:05   ` Paul Mundt
2003-07-11 15:56   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 20:38     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-12 15:38       ` Jamie Lokier
     [not found]       ` <20030715000331.GB904@matchmail.com>
2003-07-15 17:08         ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-15 19:42           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-15 20:03             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-15 21:14           ` Kevin Corry [this message]
2003-07-16  4:16           ` Peter Chubb
2003-07-16 17:07             ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-16 17:53               ` Martin Hermanowski
2003-07-11 17:33   ` Robert Love
2003-07-12  0:38     ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-07-12  1:03       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14 17:18       ` Robert Love
2003-07-11 20:07   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-11 20:53   ` Brian Gerst
2003-07-11 21:19     ` Shawn
2003-07-11 22:00       ` Alan Cox
2003-07-12  2:31   ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-11 14:37 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 14:50 ` Paul Dickson
2003-07-11 15:02 ` Paul Nasrat
2003-07-14  9:07   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-11 15:43 ` James Morris
2003-07-11 17:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-12 17:38     ` James Morris
2003-07-11 15:59 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-11 16:04   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 17:23     ` Flameeyes
2003-07-11 16:01 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-07-11 16:03 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-07-11 16:23 ` Tom Rini
2003-07-11 18:14 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-11 19:33   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 22:01     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 19:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-11 19:37 ` Andrew Theurer
2003-07-11 19:54   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 20:06     ` Andrew Theurer
2003-07-11 19:59   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-11 20:30     ` Andrew Theurer
2003-07-11 21:16 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-07-11 22:24 ` Greg KH
2003-07-12 13:10 ` Meelis Roos
2003-07-12 20:23   ` Dave Jones
2003-07-12 22:15     ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-13  0:08       ` Jens Axboe
2003-07-12 15:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-12 15:58   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-12 18:27     ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-12 18:39       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-12 19:03         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-12 19:34           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-12 19:38             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-12 19:46               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 15:51                 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-07-13 15:55                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14  0:03                   ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-07-14  8:01                     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-13 12:48 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14  6:51 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-07-14 11:39   ` Dave Jones
2003-07-14  8:30 ` Romano Giannetti
2003-07-14 11:41   ` Dave Jones
2003-07-14 11:52     ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2003-07-14 12:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-14 12:19       ` Paul Nasrat
2003-07-14 12:37       ` Philip Wyett
2003-07-14 14:05         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-14 19:34           ` Paul Nasrat
2003-07-17 20:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 21:16   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-17 21:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-18  8:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 18:48         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-07-11 17:51 Mikael Pettersson
     [not found] <fa.eq8e50t.1hkoiqh@ifi.uio.no>
2003-07-12 13:25 ` Terje Kvernes
2003-07-16 22:43 Matt_Domsch
2003-07-16 23:05 ` Kevin P. Fleming

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