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)?
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