From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:36:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl2j9muz.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9440FC.3090502@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:12:44 -0800")
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> On 03/07/2010 04:09 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>
>> It means,
>>
>> min(size, max(logical_sector_size / 512, 2));
>>
>> or like this? ("size" is "nr_sects(part) * (logical_sector_size/512)")
>>
>> This should keep old logic, i.e. if partition is bigger than 1kb, it
>> uses 1kb for (probably) LILO mentioned by comment.
>>
>
> I don't really know where the 1K cames from, and it isn't necessarily
> safe, either.
Um..., I see. However, it wouldn't also be the reason to remove this 1kb
logic. So, I'll just use the above code with some comments for now,
it'll be by separated incremental patch though.
Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-08 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 3:17 Daniel Taylor
2010-03-01 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-03 14:02 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-03 22:50 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-03 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-03 23:24 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-04 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-04 9:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-04 15:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-07 10:59 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-07 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 0:09 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-08 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 9:36 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2010-03-10 15:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: " OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:16 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 11:57 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 21:25 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:06 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 22:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-12 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-11 22:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 22:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:40 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks Daniel Taylor
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