Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:05:17 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks |
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On 03/03/2010 02:50 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote: > > The drives report physical/logical sector sizes of 4096 bytes, which the > kernel correctly detects. 32-bit fields in the MBR are then sufficient for > storage capacites >2TiB (up to 16 TiB), and the storage in struct > parsed_partitions is already sector_t. >
It's probably worth noting that such media:
a) will not work with anything that is based on disk images; b) will not be bootable on most existing systems.
Both of these are going to be issues for people in real-life use (and yes, people boot from USB disks -- trust me, when it doesn't work they send the bug reports to *me* rather than to the hw/bios vendors.) Of course, so is XP compatibility.
-hpa
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