From: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:39:16 +0100 (CET)
> On the other hand, the H and S of CHS could be lowered and S increased, > e.g. divide H by 2, divide S by 2, multiply S by 4. This gives a finer > bytes/cylinder granularity. That's really not an option when you only have 16-bits in the disk label for some of these values, which is the case for Sun disk labels and some others (f.e. BSD). Jan, please get past this, it's a real issue and we therefore have to skip the initial 1K or so in order to provide something even approaching sane. No modern filesystem should put it's superblock at position zero. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
