Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:59:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@echunga.lemis.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011192133050.73151-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com>
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >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. This thread is older than the day is long. The last time it was hashed out this message spelled out the reality of the future of a MBR on the Intel architecture. Get used to it folks. http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=359438+0+archive/2000/freebsd-stable/20000730.freebsd-stable -- Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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