Subject: Re: GPT support still needed? (was: RE: Recursive partitioning)
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/2007 14:44:44
>> No. It means for large disks, ones over 2 TiB.
> Again, a new copy-on-write-based disklabel will eliminate that
> limitation.
Perhaps, but phrasing it that way is misleading. It makes it sound as
though the copy-on-write-ness will lift the limit, which it won't; it's
using wider-than-32-bit values that will, whether or not there is
anything like copy-on-write going on.
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