From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 17:26:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6FE37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:26:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAK1QRQ20624; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:26:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA16726; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:26:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011200126.SAA16726@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:27:19 +1030." <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:26:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message