From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:09:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325180910.GF16721@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080325105228.26396685.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:52:28AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the Linux Kernel support is for GPTs.
>
> It's implemented. Not sure about how well used/tested it is.
ia64 uses it exclusively ... at least on discs that you want to use from
EFI.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-03-25 4:02 ` What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? Mark Lord
2008-03-25 4:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-25 5:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 13:37 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 13:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 17:37 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 19:25 ` Greg KH
2008-03-25 19:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-25 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 21:20 ` Greg KH
2008-03-25 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:00 ` Greg KH
2008-03-25 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:22 ` Greg KH
2008-03-27 19:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-26 0:34 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-26 0:54 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-26 3:38 ` Greg KH
2008-03-26 4:24 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-26 6:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 19:29 ` Kay Sievers
2008-03-27 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-11 23:25 ` Dan Williams
2008-04-15 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 13:47 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-15 14:20 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-15 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-15 23:43 ` Dan Williams
2008-04-16 20:55 ` patch sysfs-add-sys-dev-char-block-to-lookup-sysfs-path-by-major-minor.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2008-03-27 18:51 ` What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? Kay Sievers
2008-03-27 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 19:03 ` Kay Sievers
2008-03-25 15:17 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-25 17:31 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 19:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-25 17:45 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-03-25 17:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-25 18:09 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-03-26 9:58 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-30 4:28 ` Matt Domsch
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2008-03-25 13:34 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-25 13:51 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-03-25 14:31 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-25 15:25 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-03-25 15:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-25 15:48 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-25 16:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-25 20:51 ` Theodore Tso
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2008-03-26 11:30 ` Bodo Eggert
[not found] ` <E1JeTq5-00018y-MO@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
2008-03-27 3:52 ` Greg KH
2008-03-27 4:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 14:45 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-27 15:15 ` Greg KH
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