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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:31:22 +0000 (16:31 -0700)
commit3fbf586cf7f245392142e5407c2a56f1cff979b6
treeb158129f5ed92f4be7e15afb9d1552e967bc4cc7
parentb5c26f97ec4a17c650055c83cfc1f2ee6d8818eb
fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks

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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/partitions/msdos.c