[parted-devel] map gpt partitions to msdos primary entries

[Jim Meyering]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>> Hi Olaf,
>>>>
>>>> Almost a year ago, I requested test case additions (would have
>>>> been nice, but not required) and some minor changes to your patch:
>>>>
>>>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1610/focus=1615
>>>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1610/focus=1616
>>>>
>>>> but it looks like you never replied to either message.
>>> As I said, I dont have time nor the hardware to work on this anymore.
>>
>> That's a shame.
>> I hope someone with the required hardware will
>> pick up where you left off.
>
> It's not clear to me that much special hardware is required, except
> perhaps to actually test the handling of disks > 2 TB.  GPT partition
> tables is going to have to be standard even on PC-BIOS, just due to
> the fact that disks are going to cross the 2 TB mark soon enough --
> hardware RAIDs already do on a regular basis.

Are you're willing to help out with this?
If so, I'll spend some time on it, too.