Location of partition table on disk

[Henry Spencer]

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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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