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LILOLILOPosted Jan 23, 2011 2:45 UTC (Sun) by solardiz (guest, #35993)In reply to: LILO by ccurtis Parent article: Openwall Linux 3.0: Linux for the security-conscious
We're in agreement on this.
Just to explain where I got the 4 TB figure from: my current understanding is that it is possible to have an almost-2 TB partition start at almost-2 TB into the device, thus it will end just below 4 TB (perhaps two sectors below 4 TiB, although I did not bother doing the math). That's with an MBR partition table. So on a 4 TB device, the first 2 TB may be partitioned arbitrarily (e.g., a few tiny partitions for the OS install, then an almost-2 TB partition for the machine's actual purpose), and the second 2 TB will have to be in one partition. Yes, this is a somewhat weird special case.
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LILO Posted Jan 24, 2011 2:34 UTC (Mon) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link]
That's what I was thinking when I wrote "dirty hack" above. Not sure if there's any sign abuse going on in there or not.
But even that wouldn't have worked for my application (I don't think...), so GPT it was.
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