Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:42:15 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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       Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
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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)? 
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