Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269572AbTGOTtO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:49:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269616AbTGOTtO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:49:14 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:30733 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269572AbTGOTtL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:49:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:03:57 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030715200357.GA1121@win.tue.nl> References: <20030711155613.GC2210@gtf.org> <20030711203850.GB20970@win.tue.nl> <20030715000331.GB904@matchmail.com> <20030715170804.GA1089@win.tue.nl> <20030715194215.GE904@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030715194215.GE904@matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 19 On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:42:15PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > 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)? Yes. - 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/