From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266033AbTGLPYM (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:24:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266036AbTGLPYL (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:24:11 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:54931 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266033AbTGLPXo (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:23:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:38:18 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030712153818.GA9547@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <1057933578.20636.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030711155613.GC2210@gtf.org> <20030711203850.GB20970@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711203850.GB20970@win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Definitely. I'm hoping that people will decide upon a userland that > > supports the popular (non-raid) partition tables as well as the simple > > raid partitions, too. > > That reminds me. > > Our DOS-type partition tables are close to their limit - > regularly people complain about things that do not work > with disks of size between 1 TB and 2 TB, and if not today > then very soon we'll see disks too large to handle with > DOS-type partition tables. > > Two years ago or so I wrote some simple-minded stuff - > maybe there also was discussion on Linux-type partition tables, > I forgot all about it. > (Maybe the format was plan9-inspired, with sequence number, > start, size, label and uuid, all in ASCII.) > > What is the situation today? What is the structure of these > LVM or raid partition tables? Is there some natural type > suitable for crossing the 2 TB limit? > Is it better to invent a Linux-type partition table? What are the limits of the "Windows Logical Disk Manager (LDM)" partition format? I've never used it myself, but it's there in fs/partitions and presumably there are people using it on modern PCs. -- Jamie