From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271166AbTGPWbI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:31:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271157AbTGPWbI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:31:08 -0400 Received: from ausadmmsrr502.aus.amer.dell.com ([143.166.83.89]:24845 "HELO AUSADMMSRR502.aus.amer.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271170AbTGPW3H (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:29:07 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: 586817ae-3c88-41be-85af-53e6e1fe1fc5 Message-ID: <1058395431.1481.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:43:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-WSS-ID: 130B0AA512045268-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > We had this discussion before, back when I first submitted the large > block device patches. The consensus then was to use EFI, or LDM. GNU parted has had the GPT code for a couple years now, and CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION has been in both 2.4.x and 2.5.x trees for over a year. To the best of my knowledge and experience, it works equally well on x86 as on IA-64, modulo booting with traditional BIOSs of course. # parted /dev/sdb print # parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt # parted /dev/sdb mkpartfs p ext2 0.017 some-really-big-number partx in util-linux can even tell the kernel about it without requiring a reboot. I'd definitely be interested to know of cases where it doesn't work, so I can get them addressed. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com