Re: Subject: [PATCH RFC] block: fix Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB

Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-06-28T09:29:43Z

Hi Joanne,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:20 AM jdow <jdow@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 20180627 23:45, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 6:59 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Am 28.06.2018 um 09:20 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> >>>>> And as stated in my other reply to the patch:
> >>>>> partition needs 64 bit disk device support in AmigaOS or AmigaOS
> >>>>> like
> >>>>> operating systems (NSD64, TD64 or SCSI direct)
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd probably leave it at 'disk needs 64 bit disk device support on
> >>>> native OS', and only print that warning once.
> >>>
> >>> This is fine with me.
> >>
> >> OK, I'll go with that.
> >
> > Do we really need the warning?
> > Once the parsing is fixed doing 64-bit math, it does not matter for Linux
> > anymore.
>
> Dual booting.

(Dial/Triple/...) Booting older AmigaOS variants is an issue anyway, with
or without Linux.

It's like _Linux_ printing warnings that you cannot use your disk, created with
Solaris 2, on an old SunOS 4.1 machine ;-)

IMHO (s)he who creates partitions on large disks should make sure (s)he only
uses them on machines that can handle them. This is not a Linux issue.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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