Re: Large disk drives

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:34:11AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Sorry, meant to.  In principle I'm OK with this as the lever for the
> > hack (largely because it means we don't need to do anything) but will
> > the distributions support it?
> 
> While I can't speak for the distributions, it's reasonable to assume 
> that if something becomes part of the upstream kernel then they will 
> include it.

Btw, we do have precedence for looking at partition tables from SCSI
code with scsi_partsize(), so the layering violation of looking at
EFI labels for disks sizes wouldn't be something entirely new even
if we did it in kernel space.
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