On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 20:39 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Les wrote: > > It has been decades since I looked at the disk structure. I am > > curious about the current "state of the art". Can you recommend some > > (heavy?) reading? > > That's odd -- the PC partition structure is a couple of decades old. > You're probably up to date. > > As far as I can see, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Boot_Record and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table are accurate. GPT is > not yet used except on high end servers and Intel-based Apple Macs -- > since the existing PC partition structure has a hard disk size limit of > 2 TB, this will have to change soon. (Yes, that also means it can't > support RAID arrays with more usable space than 2 TB). > It does. And I mean several decades, we were all still using 5.25 real floppies then. I just got too involved in other stuff to do physical architecture stuff then. Thanks! Les H
