From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Oct 2 18:49:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7516137B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31816 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2000 01:49:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bde.zeta.org.au) (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 3 Oct 2000 01:49:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:49:38 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Terry Lambert Cc: Greg Lehey , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Andre Albsmeier , Marc Tardif , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) In-Reply-To: <200010022052.NAA10099@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, 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 This is well known. It's more interesting that you can support up to about 2^32 partitions (all empty) or about 2^31 partitions (1 sector each). The main problems with the DOS partition table is that it has no signatures or checksums. > PS: That's 112 TB, in LBA mode. Only about 2TB. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message