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Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:54:40 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:57:56AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Intel's EFI GPT partition table format seems quite acceptable.
>
> EFI GPT has some severe downsides (like requiring the last sector on
> disk, which in linux may not be accessible if the total number of
> sectors is not a multiple of 2,
Yeah, this does suck. That ioctl hack isn't pretty.
> and making dd of one disk to another impossible if the second one is
> bigger)
You just lose some of the fault tolerance, until you rerun a partition
tool (or even boot a kernel) that re-does the end of it, adjusting
for the new disk size.
The whole point of having an extra copy of the table is to be fault
tolerant, not to introduce another point of failure!
Cheers,
Andrew
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, (continued)
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sergey Vlasov, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Arjan van de Ven, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX,
Andrew Clausen <=
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30