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SubjectRe: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken?
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Followup to:  <01J6ZZ7G8F6Q000DCI@rcum.uni-mb.si>
By author: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> About this geometry mess:
>
> Is there a reason why not to use sector addressing and avoid ALL troubles ?
>
> Except "backweird compatroubleity" off-course.
>

Well, Linux *does* use it, but the partition table format and the
bootstrap requires CHS addressing, unfortunately; there isn't much we
can do about it, although some newer BIOSes support an LBA API. I was
working on an ext2-aware boot loader which would also be able to use
the LBA API; I ran into some issues with Linux itself that got me
stalled a bit unfortunately (ext2 reserves inode 5 for the boot
loader, but doesn't give any way of installing a cluster chain onto
that inode without umounting the filesystem.)

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