Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB

[Randy.Dunlap]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <200503141644.j2EGiVh0000022634@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Berkley Shands  <berkley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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