From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect'
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:38:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030712153818.GA9547@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030711203850.GB20970@win.tue.nl>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-12 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-11 14:02 2.5 'what to expect' Dave Jones
2003-07-11 14:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 14:46 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-11 15:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-11 15:37 ` Steven Cole
2003-07-11 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 17:51 ` Brian Gerst
2003-07-12 10:34 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-11 14:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-07-11 15:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 16:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-07-11 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 17:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-11 20:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-11 15:05 ` Paul Mundt
2003-07-11 15:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 20:38 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-12 15:38 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
[not found] ` <20030715000331.GB904@matchmail.com>
2003-07-15 17:08 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-15 19:42 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-15 20:03 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-15 21:14 ` Kevin Corry
2003-07-16 4:16 ` Peter Chubb
2003-07-16 17:07 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-16 17:53 ` Martin Hermanowski
2003-07-11 17:33 ` Robert Love
2003-07-12 0:38 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-07-12 1:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14 17:18 ` Robert Love
2003-07-11 20:07 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-11 20:53 ` Brian Gerst
2003-07-11 21:19 ` Shawn
2003-07-11 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-12 2:31 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-11 14:37 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 14:50 ` Paul Dickson
2003-07-11 15:02 ` Paul Nasrat
2003-07-14 9:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-11 15:43 ` James Morris
2003-07-11 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-12 17:38 ` James Morris
2003-07-11 15:59 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-11 16:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 17:23 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-11 16:01 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-07-11 16:03 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-07-11 16:23 ` Tom Rini
2003-07-11 18:14 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-11 19:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 19:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-11 19:37 ` Andrew Theurer
2003-07-11 19:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 20:06 ` Andrew Theurer
2003-07-11 19:59 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-11 20:30 ` Andrew Theurer
2003-07-11 21:16 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-07-11 22:24 ` Greg KH
2003-07-12 13:10 ` Meelis Roos
2003-07-12 20:23 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-12 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-13 0:08 ` Jens Axboe
2003-07-12 15:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-12 15:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-12 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-12 18:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-12 19:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-12 19:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-12 19:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-12 19:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 15:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-07-13 15:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14 0:03 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-07-14 8:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-13 12:48 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 6:51 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-07-14 11:39 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-14 8:30 ` Romano Giannetti
2003-07-14 11:41 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-14 11:52 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2003-07-14 12:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-14 12:19 ` Paul Nasrat
2003-07-14 12:37 ` Philip Wyett
2003-07-14 14:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-14 19:34 ` Paul Nasrat
2003-07-17 20:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 21:16 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-17 21:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-18 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 18:48 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-07-11 17:51 Mikael Pettersson
[not found] <fa.eq8e50t.1hkoiqh@ifi.uio.no>
2003-07-12 13:25 ` Terje Kvernes
2003-07-16 22:43 Matt_Domsch
2003-07-16 23:05 ` Kevin P. Fleming
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