Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

From: Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 15:03:57 EST


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.

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