From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 19: 0: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E43737B4D7 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA73720; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:59:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:59:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Warner Losh , "Daniel O'Connor" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 "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