Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken? | Date | 26 Jan 1999 21:25:06 GMT |
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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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