Geert Uytterhoeven - 26.04.18, 13:08: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Martin Steigerwald > > <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You probably put your stick into a cave with ancient sleeping > > dragons > > > > Added in linux-m68k mailing list, as they likely have an opinion on > > how to treat affs + RDB partition support. Also added in Jens Axboe > > about patching that RDB support broken with 2 TB or larger > > harddisks issue which had been in Linux kernel for 6 years while a > > patch exists that to my testing back then solves the issue. […] > If there are bugs in the RDB parser that people run into, they should > be fixed. > If there are limitations in the RDB format on large disks, that's > still not a reason to move it to staging (hi msdos partitioning!). What I ran into was *not* a limitation in the RDB format, but a bug in the Linux implementation on it. After Joanne Dow´s change the 2 TB disk was detected and handled properly by Linux. Also AmigaOS 4.x handles those disks just well and I think also AmigaOS 3.1/3.5/3.9 supported them, but I am not sure on the details on that, it has been a long time since I last booted one of my Amiga systems. Many classic Amiga users may not deal with such large disks, but AmigaOS 4 users probably still, and some of them may run Linux on their PowerPC motherboards as well. So I think the issue is worth fixing and am looking into submitting the fix, which looks pretty straight-forward to me upstream unless someone bets me to it. Thanks, -- Martin
