>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Huh, what? My homedir is on a 4KiB LBS/PBS drive and has been for ~2 >> years. hpa> For > 2 TiB drives with 4 KiB logical sectors and MS-DOS partition hpa> tables, it is. Ah, that. Already fixed, I believe. >> With regards to XP compatibility I don't think we should go too much >> out of our way to accommodate it. XP has been disowned by its master >> and I think virtualization will take care of the rest. hpa> I think that's is wildly optimistic, I don't expect XP to go away any time soon. But do I think that the number of fresh XP installs in combination with Linux will be fairly limited. And general lack of hardware enablement will eventually kill off XP on raw metal. I think it's ok that we have stop-gap solutions in place for interoperability. But I wouldn't want to waste all our resources on designing for the past. I'm much more interested in making sure that single-boot Linux is doing the right thing. >> FWIW, recent fdisk has a command line flag that will enable/disable >> DOS compatible layout. hpa> Yes, unfortunately it is still on by default. I agree that this is a don't-be-broken option and I would prefer it the other way around (I know that's the plan for the next release. I just hope the distributions get things right). -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
