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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Location of partition table on disk
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 16:06:05 EDT
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I too thought it would be a good idea to have the partition table on
the disk it partitioned, until I read a paper on the Cray-2 Unix port.
They had the right idea:  the size and disk location of each partition
is recorded in the /dev inode for it.  The kernel stashes the details
in internal tables when such an inode is opened or mounted.  It seems
to me that this is a cleaner solution all around.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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