From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:56:27 +0900 Message-ID: <4B96E02B.7060200@kernel.org> References: <4B947393.2050002@kernel.org> <20100308195847.GC18077@nb.net.home> <878wa20xb7.fsf@meyering.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41198 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753592Ab0CIX5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:57:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878wa20xb7.fsf@meyering.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jim Meyering Cc: Karel Zak , "Martin K. Petersen" , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , lkml , Daniel Taylor , Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord , tytso@mit.edu, "H. Peter Anvin" , hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , irtiger@gmail.com, Matthew Wilcox , aschnell@suse.de, knikanth@suse.de, jdelvare@suse.de Hello, On 03/09/2010 04:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Related information, prompted by my recent encounter with a > tool that refused to let me use a GPT partition table. > > Partition table formats: prefer GUID/GPT: > > Having spent more than my share of time looking at partition table > formats recently, I am now strongly biased against DOS partition > tables, and for GUID/GPT ones. In addition to allowing for >2GiB > partition offsets and lengths, GPT tables provide for better > protection in case of corruption (checksums, backup table at end > of disk) and don't have the anachronistic distinction of primary > and extended/logical partitions (all partitions are "primary"). > You can even give each partition a name. The only reason to use a > DOS partition table on a new installation is if you're stuck with > a requirement of using an OS like XP on bare metal. > > Please consider encouraging the use of GPT partition tables... > or at least do not *dis*courage their use. I'll surely include it. Thanks. -- tejun