Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:56:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010051253470.13222-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031245300.8594-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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> 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. Regarding checksums; true. This is a shortcoming, though it can be worked around by abusing the space normally used for code. Regarding signatures; the signature 0xaa55 (intel byte order) trails the four slots holding the actual layout data. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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