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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:09:10 -0600
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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.

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