Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Berkley Shands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have not found any documentation of efforts to overcome the 2TB
partition limit,
config LBD
bool "Support for Large Block Devices"
depends on X86 || MIPS32 || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31 || SUPERH
help
Say Y here if you want to attach large (bigger than 2TB) discs to
your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device
bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N.
Mike.
ISTR some mention or plan or idea of using EFI GUID partition table
format, or something else that already existed & worked and supported
larger partitions sizes.
Maybe Peter Anvin or Andries would recall this info?
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~Randy
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