From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:35:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42360385.4090203@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d14vc7$8cu$2@news.cistron.nl>
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <200503141644.j2EGiVh0000022634@mudpuddle.cs.wustl.edu>,
> Berkley Shands <berkley@cs.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
>>I have not found any documentation of efforts to overcome the 2TB
>>partition limit,
>
>
> config LBD
> bool "Support for Large Block Devices"
> depends on X86 || MIPS32 || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31 || SUPERH
> help
> Say Y here if you want to attach large (bigger than 2TB) discs to
> your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device
> bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N.
>
> Mike.
ISTR some mention or plan or idea of using EFI GUID partition table
format, or something else that already existed & worked and supported
larger partitions sizes.
Maybe Peter Anvin or Andries would recall this info?
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-14 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 16:44 Devices/Partitions over 2TB Berkley Shands
2005-03-14 21:23 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2005-03-14 21:35 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2005-03-14 23:58 ` jmerkey
2005-03-15 4:47 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-03-15 4:54 ` jmerkey
2005-03-16 12:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-16 14:06 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-17 13:07 ` Andries Brouwer
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