On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 23:31, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:50:00PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> > Why don't we take the opporunity to make all CHS code configurable out
> > of the kernel, and define a new, more compact, partition table format
> > which used LBA exclusively, and allowed more than four partitions in
> > the main partition table?
> 
> Intel's EFI GPT partition table format seems quite acceptable.

EFI GPT has some severe downsides (like requiring the last sector on
disk, which in linux may not be accessible if the total number of
sectors is not a multiple of 2, and making dd of one disk to another
impossible if the second one is bigger)