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Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
From: |
Arjan van de Ven |
Subject: |
Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:57:56 +0100 |
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)
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- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, (continued)
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Stefan Smietanowski, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sergey Vlasov, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX,
Arjan van de Ven <=
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30