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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:26:26 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@echunga.lemis.com>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) 
Message-ID:  <200011200126.SAA16726@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:27:19 %2B1030." <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> 
References:  <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com>  <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: I wonder how long the current Microsoft partition table has to live,
: anyway?  Sooner or later people are going to have to move to LBA
: addressing, or disks will get so big that the partition table can't
: address them.  Then, hopefully, we'll be able to use a more sane
: layout.

Forever.  We've already passed the 8G barrier and there's a bunch of
kludges to cope...

Warner


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