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SubjectRe: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5
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Guest section DW writes:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:52:14PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> >
> > This patch should allow the disk partition handlers to be
> > compiled as loadable modules.
> >
> > If this change looks good to everyone, then, the next change
> > after making sure that the modules work would be to add demand loading
> > of the modules via kmod. I am thinking of naming the demand loaded
> > module names as "partition-12345678", where "12345678" is the hexadecimal
> > representation of the first four bytes of the partition.
>
> There is no reason why the first four bytes of a partition
> would have any particular value.

And who's to say that the first four bytes of the first sector of a hard drive
have any significance in any case? Some partition tables are stored in sector
6, others in the first sector, etc.
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