Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/07/2010 11:00 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> The 2TB size for msdos partitions is a problem independent of the 4k
> sector issue.  Traditional 512 byte sector drives are now available in
> those sizes.  It looks like we're going to have to move to a new
> partitioning label to solve this.
>
> There's actually another barrier at 8 or 16TB, which is where a 4k
> logical sector filesystem tops out using 32 bit block offsets (it's 8TB
> if the fs hasn't been proof checked against sign extension problems).

The limit for the MS-DOS partition tables is 2^32 sectors.  The patch 
that Daniel posted was for a Linux kernel internal limit that set the 
limit to 2 TB.

	-hpa
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