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Re: [Xen-devel] sfdisk -g support in DomU

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To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] sfdisk -g support in DomU
From: Nick Logan <nick_logan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:00:55 +0000
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Gerd Knorr wrote:
IMHO the applications should be fixed to not depend on the disk geometry. There is LBA addressing for disks since ages, all the CHS addressing you still find are some more or less random, artificial values picked to satisfy prehistoric software ;)
Agreed, but it does mean that some prehistoric (mature) software will not run unchanged in DomU. 


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