RE: 2.5.28 and partitions

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cantab.net)
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:58:15 +0100

At 23:47 31/07/02, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> > Maybe we need to roll our own?
>
>What's wrong with EFI GUID scheme (GPT) (other than it wasn't invented by
>Linux folks)?
[snip]
>Unless there's something that GPT doesn't do well, I'd prefer not to make
>yet another partitioning scheme. If there is something else it needs, it
>can be extended.

And if there is something GPT doesn't do then there is Veritas LDM (also
used in simplified form by Windows LDM) and the kernel understands it
today. Admittedly none of the Linux partitioning tools support it yet but
that is subject to change. (-; LDM is journalled, supports large numbers of
disks, huge disks, all sorts of RAID, etc... I don't think you will find
anything missing in that one...

So I fully agree that inventing yet another partitioning scheme is silly in
view of the multitude of existing ones which do the job just fine. Feel
free to prove me I am wrong by showing me something that GPT/LDM can't do...

Best regards,

Anton

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