Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:08:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <20001003090846.F372@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200010022052.NAA10099@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:52:24PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010012343530.5871-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200010022052.NAA10099@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Monday, 2 October 2000 at 20:52:24 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> I strongly object to the Microsoft "partition" table, and I don't use >>> it myself. And of course you're welcome to use whatever you find >>> convenient. It's not until you advocate making this a standard way >>> that anybody can have any objection. >> >> Why? It is only broken in different ways than the BSD label. > > The PReP specification makes it crystal clear how you can > support up to 2^32 sectors with the DOS partition table > mechanism. It's perhaps the best documentation I've ever > seen for the DOS partition table, and the 32 bit sector > field. I'd have bought the thing for that documentation > alone, had I known it was there when I needed it. Why do we need it? > PS: That's 112 TB, in LBA mode. I make 1 TB for signed sector numbers, which is what we already have. How do you get 112 TB out of 512*2**31? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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