Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks

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From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 4:03 pm

On 03/07/2010 02:59 AM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
 > partition itself (e.g. if sda1 sda2<sda5 sda6>, it's the size of sda2)

We should presumably set it to one logical sector, regardless of size. 
Either that, or the offset of the lowest contained partition.


Much else isn't, either.  With the exception of some MO disks, it was 
nearly unheard of for 20 years.

	-hpa
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[PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, Daniel Taylor, (Wed Feb 24, 8:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, Andrew Morton, (Mon Mar 1, 3:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, OGAWA Hirofumi, (Wed Mar 3, 7:02 am)
RE: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, Daniel Taylor, (Wed Mar 3, 3:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Mar 3, 4:05 pm)
RE: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, Daniel Taylor, (Wed Mar 3, 4:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Mar 3, 5:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, OGAWA Hirofumi, (Thu Mar 4, 2:18 am)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Mar 4, 8:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, OGAWA Hirofumi, (Sun Mar 7, 3:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Mar 7, 4:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, OGAWA Hirofumi, (Sun Mar 7, 5:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Mar 7, 5:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks, OGAWA Hirofumi, (Mon Mar 8, 2:36 am)