*** Quoting Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Mike Ruskai dated 11-20-99 ***
>  MR> Now, if we could kill the convention of assigning letters to primary
>  MR> partitions first, things could be a lot easier.
> 
> What mechanism *would* you have to assign drive letters, then ?

Jonathan,

I would prefer drive labels, not letters.
When the op-system boots it reads 1 sector indicating if its bootable or not
and where the next partition starts.  Where the 2nd partition starts, same
thing, is it bootable & where is the next partition, or indicate its the
last.
Each partition would also have the label in it.  Once the op-system boots, use 
UNC type paths based on the machine name.

I would also think this would break a few utilities, maybe even have to be the 
start of a new op-system.

Think how many 100k partitions you could make with a drive array!!   :}

Rich
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