Re: LBA48 partitioning scheme

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 00:31, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello Andrew -
>
> I don't see any reason why Xbox-Linux/Cromwell couldn't be modified to
> support my simple partitioning mechanism.  (and, I'm not sure what to call
> it either: I introduced it along with the "LBA48" patches, but it really
> has nothing to do with LBA48).
>
> The Xbox program "Xbpartitioner" (I think that's the name - it's from the
> developer of "Xbtool") also makes use of the partitioning table format I
> devised (Xbpartitioner lets you make edits to the table - I never came up
> with such a tool).
>
> I don't know enough about Xbox-Linux/Cromwell to know how much work would
> be involved - I believe the work would be very isolated and simple to
> implement, though.

Yeah, not THAT much, I would say.

I suppose I've got one question though, seeing as you're the author of the 
partitioning scheme.  Why did you derive another partitioning system, rather 
than come up with a creative way to use a PC-style partition table?

ie the old 'primary/secondary' stuff?

Cheers,

David


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