From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:28:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080330042811.GB27330@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87f94c370803251045h46cbdc0auc541302fbad4a3b9@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:45:35PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I believe GUID Partition Tables (GPTs) are the answer.
>
> I believe one of the features of GPT is the elimination of the 32-bit
> sector restrictions.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
>
> Windows VISTA 64-bit supports GPTs on data disks and new Mac OS based
> systems have been using it on internal drives for a couple years at
> least.
>
> GPTs are part of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), so they
> should be usable for PC bootable disks at some point. (Maybe now in
> some cases?)
>
> I'm not sure what the Linux Kernel support is for GPTs.
It has been supported since the first Itanium systems shipped. It's
the first code I wrote 7+ years before it was really needed. :-) Most
distributions have it enabled, as do userspace tools like GNU Parted.
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <47E875AD.1000901@rtr.ca>
2008-03-25 4:02 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 4:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-25 5:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 13:37 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 13:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 17:37 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 19:25 ` Greg KH
2008-03-25 19:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-25 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 21:20 ` Greg KH
2008-03-25 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:00 ` Greg KH
2008-03-25 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:22 ` Greg KH
2008-03-27 19:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-26 0:34 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-26 0:54 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-26 3:38 ` Greg KH
2008-03-26 4:24 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-26 6:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 19:29 ` Kay Sievers
2008-03-27 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-11 23:25 ` Dan Williams
2008-04-15 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 13:47 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-15 14:20 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-15 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-15 23:43 ` Dan Williams
2008-04-16 20:55 ` patch sysfs-add-sys-dev-char-block-to-lookup-sysfs-path-by-major-minor.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2008-03-27 18:51 ` What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? Kay Sievers
2008-03-27 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 19:03 ` Kay Sievers
2008-03-25 15:17 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-25 17:31 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 19:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-25 17:45 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-03-25 17:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-25 18:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-26 9:58 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-30 4:28 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803242254020.2775@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25 13:34 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 13:51 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-03-25 14:31 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-25 15:25 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-03-25 15:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-25 15:48 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-25 16:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-25 20:51 ` Theodore Tso
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2008-03-26 11:30 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-03-27 3:52 ` Greg KH
2008-03-27 4:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 14:45 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-27 15:15 ` Greg KH
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