Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Chubb <> | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:16:11 +1000 | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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>>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> writes:
Andries> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB? If so, then we won't >> have a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives
Andries> Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with Andries> 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB.
Andries> People are encountering that limit already. We need something Andries> better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something.
We had this discussion before, back when I first submitted the large block device patches. The consensus then was to use EFI, or LDM.
Unless the BIOS supports a partitioning scheme, you're not going to be able to boot anyway, or at least not without doing something clever.
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