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Re: [PATCH] diskpart
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Jeff Bailey |
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Re: [PATCH] diskpart |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:46:50 -0800 |
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:55:16AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Marcus has made some changes to libstore and gnumach that should make it
> handle disks up to a terabyte or two. If you have the most recent gnumach
> (with a 2001-01-09 ChangeLog entry), and hurd (which you are evidently
> building yourself, so just get current hurd from cvs), then libstore ought
> to work right for you on disks larger than 8GB. You can test this using
> storeinfo and storeread to access the far reaches of the disk. (Note that
> only direct uses of libstore work, not things like reads from storeio, or
> file_get_storage_info.)
Marcus/Roland,
Without any warantee or guarantee (obviously), can you rate a scale of 1
(low) to 10 (high) how likely this is to corrupt a partition? I can't
take much more than a small risk on the data stored on my Linux
partition, but this is a very cool hack. Thanks, guys!
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