From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 2 16:39:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A2F37B502; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e92NclS00695; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:08:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:08:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <20001003090846.F372@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200010022052.NAA10099@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200010022052.NAA10099@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:52:24PM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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