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fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks
authorDaniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:35:50 +0000 (13:35 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:58:43 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
commit1abac82345f0b5e8505964854730ee4551926ac0
treef71e4875c315633718a690aa3ced6c2f5404f5f8
parentb39b928d063227f1950e05a8e3815e608fcfdb60
fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks

commit 3fbf586cf7f245392142e5407c2a56f1cff979b6 upstream.

In order to use disks larger than 2TiB on Windows XP, it is necessary to
use 4096-byte logical sectors in an MBR.

Although the kernel storage and functions called from msdos.c used
"sector_t" internally, msdos.c still used u32 variables, which results in
the ability to handle XP-compatible large disks.

This patch changes the internal variables to "sector_t".

Daniel said: "In the near future, WD will be releasing products that need
this patch".

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: tweaks and fix]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Taylor <daniel.taylor@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/partitions/msdos.c