Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:42:15 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:08:04PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB? If so, then we won't have > > a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives > > Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with > 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB. > > People are encountering that limit already. We need something > better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something.
Please point me to an URL for a 2TB hard drive. Or are you pointing out that hardware raid setups look like a single drive (block device)? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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