[techtalk] partitioning question

[Andrew Wendt]

On July 25, 2001 03:29, coldfire wrote:
> so assuming that the extended partitions are in fact one big linked
> list .. must that linked list be traversed from the very beginning to find
> a specific partition down the line?  if so, that would be terrible for
> performance .. needing to access hda342 but having to start on hda4 (yeah,
> i exagerated a bit :).

The extended partitions are stored in a linked list, but the list only needs 
to be read once and is thereafter remembered by the kernel.

TTFN
Andy