In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Attila Na gy writes: >Hello, > >> The i386 port uses the generic disklabel code, which has 32 bit logical >> block addressing, which means that the partitions themselves are limited >> to 1TB or so. >Will this change or GEOM will be the standard method? (and thanks, I >forgot that all of this is on IA-32)
I will not change the disklabel format, so as such that will not change. It should be noted that a larger sectorsize can be used in the disklabel data, and thus it would be trivial to extend the life for disklabel a little bit. Geom will deal with all I/O requests as 64 bit byte offsets, so as such GEOM will solve the problem, and provided the disk-driver authors follow suit, this entire thing can be fixed before 5.0. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
