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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:12:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9440FC.3090502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr3fd68r.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>

On 03/07/2010 04:09 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
> It means,
>
> 	min(size, max(logical_sector_size / 512, 2));
>
> or like this? ("size" is "nr_sects(part) * (logical_sector_size/512)")
>
> This should keep old logic, i.e. if partition is bigger than 1kb, it
> uses 1kb for (probably) LILO mentioned by comment.
>

I don't really know where the 1K cames from, and it isn't necessarily 
safe, either.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-25  3:17 [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks Daniel Taylor
2010-03-01 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-03 14:02   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-03 22:50     ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-03 23:05       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-03 23:24         ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-04  0:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-04  9:18           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-04 15:29             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-07 10:59     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-07 23:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08  0:09         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-08  0:12           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-03-08  9:36             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:48               ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: " OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:51                 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:16                   ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 11:57                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 21:25                       ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 21:58                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:06                           ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 22:09                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-12 23:44                               ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-11 22:17                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 22:27                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:40                             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:12                 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks Daniel Taylor

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