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From: Nick Logan <nick_logan@symantec.com>
Subject: Re: sfdisk -g support in DomU
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:00:55 +0000
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Gerd Knorr wrote:

>
> IMHO the applications should be fixed to not depend on the disk 
> geometry.  There is LBA addressing for disks since ages, all the CHS 
> addressing you still find are some more or less random, artificial 
> values picked to satisfy prehistoric software ;)
>
Agreed, but it does mean that some prehistoric (mature) software will 
not run unchanged in DomU.