Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken?

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:07:16 +0100

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:28:19PM +0100, Guest section DW wrote:
> From: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
>
> About this geometry mess:
> Is there a reason why not to use sector addressing and avoid ALL troubles ?
> Except "backweird compatroubleity" off-course.
>
> It will be required at least as long as there still exist people
> using DOS or Windows * with the old partition types (1,4,5,6)
> who want to have Linux on the same system.

Ok. So let's use sector addressing by default and have a DOS-compatibility
mode which should be run-time compatible. If the kernel detects the presence
of such a partition type he should print a warning and enter the compatibility
mode unless explicitly instructed otherwise (doscompat=0 or something like
that..)

But obviously that is something for 2.3...

Yours,
Dominik Kubla

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