On 1/23/2012 2:19 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > The point is that the GPT format dictates we specify a PTE array size > in the header, while with a dos partition table, there is no inherent > limitation: it's an arbitrarily-long linked list of partition entries.
I understand that, but as far as libparted goes, all partition tables have a limit. Whatever they claim their limit is, should actually be correct. > Any PTE-count limitation we impose when writing a dos partition table > is artificial or system-specific, and hence undesirable. > What if we want to create a partition table that will never > be used on a linux-based system? Why should it suffer the > limitations of the host kernel? It doesn't need to be limited by the host kernel, it just needs to report the correct limit, whatever that limit may be. I increased it to 64 because I figured that would be plenty, but you can make it 65535 and that would be fine.
