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From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>,
	Apurva Mehta <apurva@gmx.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bug-parted@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:31:03 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031129223103.GB505@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311291350.hATDo0CY001142@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:50:00PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> Why don't we take the opporunity to make all CHS code configurable out
> of the kernel, and define a new, more compact, partition table format
> which used LBA exclusively, and allowed more than four partitions in
> the main partition table?

Intel's EFI GPT partition table format seems quite acceptable.

Cheers,
Andrew


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-29 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-28  4:58 Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX Apurva Mehta
2003-11-28 14:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29  2:22   ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-29  5:16     ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-29  9:18       ` Sven Luther
2003-11-29 12:41         ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 11:44           ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 15:19             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 12:34       ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 13:50         ` John Bradford
2003-11-29 14:04           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-11-29 17:01           ` Sven Luther
2003-11-29 22:14             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 22:44               ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30  0:39                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30  9:35               ` Sergey Vlasov
2003-11-29 22:31           ` Andrew Clausen [this message]
2003-11-30  8:57             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-30  7:38               ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 10:40               ` John Bradford
2003-11-30 11:24                 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 13:48                   ` John Bradford
2003-11-30 17:22                     ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 23:51                 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30 22:54               ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-29 22:27         ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30  0:34           ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 11:10             ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 13:26               ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 12:34                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 15:46                   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 22:33       ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30  9:16         ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 11:05           ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 11:28             ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 11:54               ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 13:07                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 23:27                   ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 21:55                     ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 23:47                     ` bill davidsen
     [not found] <200311300220.hAU2K0dr019280@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
2003-11-30  2:22 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-11-30 13:13   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 13:58     ` John Bradford
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-30  7:08 Norman Diamond
2003-11-30  7:08 Norman Diamond
2003-11-30 12:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-03 11:06   ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 14:42     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-03 23:11       ` Andrew Clausen

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